阿摩司書 6
1 國為列國之首，人最著名， 且為以色列家所歸向， 在錫安和撒馬利亞山安逸無慮的，有禍了！
Woe to you who have been wealthy in Zion, and to you who have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: aristocrats, heads of the people, who advance with a retinue into the house of Israel.
2 你們要過到甲尼察看， 從那裏往大城哈馬去， 又下到非利士人的迦特， 看那些國比你們的國還強嗎？ 境界比你們的境界還寬嗎？
Cross over to Calneh and see, and go from there into Hamath the great, and descend into Gath of the Philistines, and to the best kingdoms of these, if their limits are wider than your limits.
3 你們以為降禍的日子還遠， 坐在位上盡行強暴。
You have been set aside for the day of disaster, and you approach the throne of iniquity.
4 你們躺臥在象牙床上，舒身在榻上， 吃群中的羊羔，棚裏的牛犢；
You sleep on beds of ivory, and you are lustful on your couches. You devour lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the herd.
5 彈琴鼓瑟唱消閑的歌曲， 為自己製造樂器，如同大衛所造的；
You sing to the sound of stringed instruments; they consider themselves to have the musical abilities of David.
6 以大碗喝酒，用上等的油抹身， 卻不為約瑟的苦難擔憂。
You drink wine in bowls, and you anoint with the best ointments; and they suffer nothing over the grief of Joseph.
7 所以這些人必在被擄的人中首先被擄； 舒身的人荒宴之樂必消滅了。
Because of this, now they will depart at the head of those who go into captivity; and the faction of the lustful will be removed.
8 主耶和華－萬軍之上帝指着自己起誓說： 我憎惡雅各的榮華，厭棄他的宮殿； 因此，我必將城和其中所有的都交付敵人。
The Lord God has sworn by his own soul, the Lord God of hosts says: I detest the arrogance of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will hand over the city with its inhabitants.
9 那時，若在一房之內剩下十個人，也都必死。
For if there were ten men remaining in one house, even they will die.
10 死人的伯叔，就是燒他屍首的，要將這屍首搬到房外，問房屋內間的人說：「你那裏還有人沒有？」他必說：「沒有」；又說：「不要作聲，因為我們不可提耶和華的名。」
And his closest relative will steal him away and will burn him, so that he may carry the bones out of the house. And he will say to him that is in the inner most rooms of the house, “Now is there any left that still belongs to you?” And he will answer, “It is finished.” And he will say to him, “Be silent and do not call to mind the name of the Lord.”
11 看哪，耶和華出令， 大房就被攻破， 小屋就被打裂。
For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.
12 馬豈能在崖石上奔跑？ 人豈能在那裏用牛耕種呢？ 你們卻使公平變為苦膽， 使公義的果子變為茵蔯。
Can horses gallop across rocks, or is anyone able to plough with gazelles? For you have turned judgment into bitterness and the fruit of justice into wormwood.
13 你們喜愛虛浮的事，自誇說： 我們不是憑自己的力量取了角嗎？
You rejoice in emptiness. You say, “Have we not, by our own strength, taken horns for ourselves?”
14 耶和華、萬軍之上帝說： 以色列家啊，我必興起一國攻擊你們； 他們必欺壓你們， 從哈馬口直到亞拉巴的河。
For behold, house of Israel, I will raise up a people over you, says the Lord God of hosts, and they will crush you from the entrance of Hamath all the way to the burning of the desert.
