Amos 4
1 Hear this word, all of you cattle of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us 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, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you 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 And all of you shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and all of you shall cast them into the palace, says the LORD.
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 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
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 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this likes you, O all of you children of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
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 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet have all of you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
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 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not 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 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have all of you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
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 have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have all of you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
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 have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have all of you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
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 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and all of you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have all of you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
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 thus will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this unto 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, lo, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares unto man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places 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。
