Amos 5
1 Hear all of you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Audite verbum istud, quod ego levo super vos planctum. Domus Israel cecidit, et non adiiciet ut resurgat.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
Virgo Israel proiecta est in terram suam, non est qui suscitet eam.
3 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.
Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Urbs, de qua egrediebantur mille, relinquentur in ea centum: et de qua egrediebantur centum, relinquentur in ea decem in domo Israel.
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek all of you me, and all of you shall live:
Quia hæc dicit Dominus domui Israel: Quærite me, et vivetis.
5 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.
Et nolite quærere Bethel, et in Galgalam nolite intrare, et in Bersabee non transibitis: quia Galgala captiva ducetur, et Bethel erit inutilis.
6 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.
Quærite Dominum, et vivite: ne forte comburatur ut ignis domus Ioseph, et devorabit, et non erit qui extinguat Bethel.
7 All of you who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Qui convertitis in absinthium iudicium, et iustitiam in terra relinquitis.
8 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:
Facientem Arcturum, et Orionem, et convertentem in mane tenebras, et diem in noctem mutantem: qui vocat aquas maris, et effundit eas super faciem terræ: Dominus nomen est eius.
9 That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they detest him that speaks uprightly.
Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta: et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.
11 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.
Idcirco, pro eo quod diripiebatis pauperem, et prædam electam tollebatis ab eo: domos quadro lapide ædificabitis, et non habitabitis in eis: vineas plantabis amantissimas, et non bibetis vinum earum.
12 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.
Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra: hostes iusti accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta:
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit, quia tempus malum est.
14 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.
Quærite bonum, et non malum, ut vivatis: et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum, sicut dixistis.
15 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.
Odite malum, et diligite bonum, et constituite in porta iudicium: si forte misereatur Dominus Deus exercituum reliquiis Ioseph.
16 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.
Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum Dominator, in omnibus plateis planctus: et in cunctis, quæ foris sunt, dicetur: Væ, væ! Et vocabunt agricolam ad luctum, et ad planctum eos, qui sciunt plangere.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
Et in omnibus vineis erit planctus: quia pertransibo in medio tui, dicit Dominus.
18 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.
Væ desiderantibus diem Domini: ad quid eam vobis? dies Domini ista, tenebræ, et non lux.
19 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.
Quomodo si fugiat vir a facie leonis, et occurrat ei ursus: et ingrediatur domum, et innitatur manu sua super parietem, et mordeat eum coluber.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Numquid non tenebræ dies Domini, et non lux: et caligo, et non splendor in ea?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Odi, et proieci festivitates vestras: et non capiam odorem cœtuum vestrorum.
22 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.
Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocautomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam: et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.
23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
Aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum: et cantica lyræ tuæ non audiam.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Et revelabitur quasi aqua iudicium, et iustitia quasi torrens fortis.
25 Have all of you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israel?
26 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.
Et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro, et imaginem idolorum vestrorum, sidus dei vestri, quæ fecistis vobis.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus: Deus exercituum nomen eius.
