Amos 4

1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

你們這些欺壓弱小，虐待窮人，且對自己丈夫說：「拿酒來，我們暢飲」的撒馬黎雅山上巴商母牛，聽聽這話吧!

2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

吾主上主指著的神聖起誓說：「看，對付你們的日子快到，人必用鉤子把你們鉤去；直到你們最後一個也必被人用魚鉤鉤去。

3 You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,”

你們一個一個地經過城牆的裂口，被押到赫爾孟去」──上主的斷語。

4 “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

你們去貝特耳犯罪吧! 去基耳加耳罪上加罪吧! 每晨奉獻你們的犧牲，每三天奉獻你們的什一之物，

5 Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,”

焚燒有酵供物當作感恩祭，高聲宣揚你們自願獻的祭獻! 以色列子民，你們原喜歡這樣──吾主上主的斷語──

6 “I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,”

雖然我使你們一切城市饑荒，到處缺糧，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

收割前三個月，我就不給你們降雨，或者在這城下雨，在另一城卻不降雨；這塊地得了雨，而另一塊地沒有得雨，因而枯乾了；

8 People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,”

兩三座城的人踉踉蹌蹌走到另一城去喝水，卻不能喝足；雖然如此，你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

9 “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,”

我使熱風和霉爛襲擊你們，使你們的田園和葡萄園乾旱；蝗蟲又吃光了你們的無花果檥和橄欖樹，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

10 “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,”

我在你們中間下了瘟疫，如在埃及一樣，用刀劍殺了你們的精兵，令人擄掠你們的戰馬，使你們營中腥臭撲鼻，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語─

11 “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,”

我傾覆了你們，像天主傾覆了索多瑪和哈摩辣，你們好似由火中抽出來的木柴，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

12 “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

為此，以色列! 我必要這樣對待你。以色列! 因我要這樣對待你，你準備迎接你的天主吧!

13 For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

看，是衪形成了山嶽，創造了風暴，向人宣示衪的旨意，造成黎明和黑暗，在大地高處巡行，衪的名字叫「雅威，」萬軍的天主。