Amos 4
1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
»Poslušajte to besedo, ve bašánske krave, ki ste na samarijski gori, ki stiskate uboge, ki drobite pomoči potrebne, ki svojim gospodarjem pravite: ›Prinesite in naj pijemo.‹
2 The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.
Gospod Bog je prisegel pri svoji svetosti, da, glejte, nad vas bodo prišli dnevi, ko vas bo odvedel proč s kavlji in vaše potomstvo s trnki.
3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.
Šle boste ven pri vrzelih, vsaka krava pri tisti, ki je pred njo, in vrgle jih boste v palačo, « govori Gospod.
4 Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:
»Prihajate v Betel in grešite, pri Gilgálu množite prestopek in vsako jutro prinašajte svoje klavne daritve in svoje desetine po treh letih
5 Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
in darujte žrtev zahvaljevanja s kvasom in razglašajte in objavljajte prostovoljne daritve, kajti to vam je všeč, oh vi, Izraelovi otroci, « govori Gospod Bog.
6 But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
»In tudi jaz sem vam dal čistost zob po vseh vaših mestih in pomanjkanje kruha po vseh vaših krajih. Vendar se niste vrnili k meni, « govori Gospod.
7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
»In tudi jaz sem zadržal dež pred vami, ko je bilo še tri mesece do žetve in mu dal, da dežuje nad enim mestom in dal, da ne dežuje nad drugim mestom. Na en kos je deževalo, kos pa, na katerega ni deževalo, se je posušil.
8 So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
Tako so dva ali tri mesta tavala k enemu mestu, da pijejo vodo, toda niso bila nasičena. Vendar se niste vrnili k meni, « govori Gospod.
9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
»Udaril sem vas s kvarjenjem in plesnijo. Ko so se množili vaši vrtovi in vaši vinogradi in vaša figova drevesa in vaše oljke, jih je požrla kosmata gosenica. Vendar se niste vrnili k meni, « govori Gospod.
10 I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
»Med vas sem poslal kužno bolezen po načinu iz Egipta. Vaše mladeniče sem umoril z mečem in vaše konje odvedel proč in storil sem, da se smrad vaših taborov vzdigne do vaših nosnic, vendar se niste vrnili k meni, « govori Gospod.
11 And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
»Uničil sem nekatere izmed vas, kakor je Bog razdejal Sódomo in Gomóro in ste bili kakor kos tlečega lesa, izvlečenega iz gorenja, vendar se niste vrnili k meni, « govori Gospod.
12 So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.
»Zato ti bom tako storil, oh Izrael in ker ti bom to storil, se pripravi, da srečaš svojega Boga, oh Izrael.
13 For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.
Kajti glej, tisti ki oblikuje gore in ustvarja veter in razglaša človeku, kaj je njegova misel, ki dela jutranjo temo in mendra na visokih krajih zemlje. Gospod, Bog nad bojevniki, je njegovo ime.«
