阿摩司書 5
1 以色列家啊，要聽我為你們所作的哀歌：
Hear all of you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 以色列民跌倒，不得再起； 躺在地上，無人攙扶。
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 主耶和華如此說： 以色列家的城發出一千兵的，只剩一百； 發出一百的，只剩十個。
For thus says the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 耶和華向以色列家如此說： 你們要尋求我，就必存活。
For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek all of you me, and all of you shall live:
5 不要往伯特利尋求， 不要進入吉甲， 不要過到別是巴； 因為吉甲必被擄掠， 伯特利也必歸於無有。
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 要尋求耶和華，就必存活， 免得他在約瑟家像火發出， 在伯特利焚燒，無人撲滅。
Seek the LORD, and all of you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 你們這使公平變為茵蔯、 將公義丟棄於地的，
All of you who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 要尋求那造昴星和參星， 使死蔭變為晨光， 使白日變為黑夜， 命海水來澆在地上的－ 耶和華是他的名；
Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
9 他使力強的忽遭滅亡， 以致保障遭遇毀壞。
That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 你們怨恨那在城門口責備人的， 憎惡那說正直話的。
They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they detest him that speaks uprightly.
11 你們踐踏貧民， 向他們勒索麥子； 你們用鑿過的石頭建造房屋， 卻不得住在其內； 栽種美好的葡萄園， 卻不得喝所出的酒。
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and all of you take from him burdens of wheat: all of you have built houses of hewn stone, but all of you shall not dwell in them; all of you have planted pleasant vineyards, but all of you shall not drink wine of them.
12 我知道你們的罪過何等多， 你們的罪惡何等大。 你們苦待義人，收受賄賂，在城門口屈枉窮乏人。
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 所以通達人見這樣的時勢必靜默不言， 因為時勢真惡。
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14 你們要求善， 不要求惡，就必存活。 這樣，耶和華－萬軍之上帝 必照你們所說的與你們同在。
Seek good, and not evil, that all of you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as all of you have spoken.
15 要惡惡好善， 在城門口秉公行義； 或者耶和華－萬軍之上帝向約瑟的餘民施恩。
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 主耶和華－萬軍之上帝如此說： 在一切寬闊處必有哀號的聲音； 在各街市上必有人說： 哀哉！哀哉！ 又必叫農夫來哭號， 叫善唱哀歌的來舉哀。
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 在各葡萄園必有哀號的聲音， 因為我必從你中間經過。 這是耶和華說的。
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
18 想望耶和華日子來到的有禍了！ 你們為何想望耶和華的日子呢？ 那日黑暗沒有光明，
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
19 景況好像人躲避獅子又遇見熊， 或是進房屋以手靠牆，就被蛇咬。
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 耶和華的日子不是黑暗沒有光明嗎？ 不是幽暗毫無光輝嗎？
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 我厭惡你們的節期， 也不喜悅你們的嚴肅會。
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 你們雖然向我獻燔祭和素祭， 我卻不悅納， 也不顧你們用肥畜獻的平安祭；
Though all of you offer me burnt offerings and your food offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 要使你們歌唱的聲音遠離我， 因為我不聽你們彈琴的響聲。
Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
24 惟願公平如大水滾滾， 使公義如江河滔滔。
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 「以色列家啊，你們在曠野四十年，豈是將祭物和供物獻給我呢？
Have all of you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 你們抬着為自己所造之摩洛的帳幕和偶像的龕，並你們的神星。
But all of you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which all of you made to yourselves.
27 所以我要把你們擄到大馬士革以外。」這是耶和華－名為萬軍之上帝說的。
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
