< Amos 4 >
1 Hear you this word, you heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.
你们住撒马利亚山如巴珊母牛的啊, 当听我的话— 你们欺负贫寒的,压碎穷乏的, 对家主说:拿酒来,我们喝吧!
2 The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.
主耶和华指着自己的圣洁起誓说: 日子快到,人必用钩子将你们钩去, 用鱼钩将你们余剩的钩去。
3 And you shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and you shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, says the Lord.
你们各人必从破口直往前行, 投入哈门。 这是耶和华说的。
4 You went into Bethel, and sinned, and you multiplied sin at Galgala; and you brought your meat-offerings in the morning, [and] your tithes every third day.
以色列人哪,任你们往伯特利去犯罪, 到吉甲加增罪过; 每日早晨献上你们的祭物, 每三日奉上你们的十分之一。
5 And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, says the Lord.
任你们献有酵的感谢祭, 把甘心祭宣传报告给众人, 因为是你们所喜爱的。 这是主耶和华说的。
6 And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you returned not to me, says the Lord.
我使你们在一切城中牙齿干净, 在你们各处粮食缺乏, 你们仍不归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
7 Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.
在收割的前三月,我使雨停止, 不降在你们那里; 我降雨在这城, 不降雨在那城; 这块地有雨, 那块地无雨; 无雨的就枯干了。
8 And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the Lord.
这样,两三城的人凑到一城去找水, 却喝不足; 你们仍不归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
9 I struck you with parching, and with blight: you multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive yards: yet not [even] thus did you return to me, says the Lord.
我以旱风、霉烂攻击你们, 你们园中许多菜蔬、葡萄树、 无花果树、橄榄树都被剪虫所吃; 你们仍不归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
10 I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and killed your young men with the sword, together with your horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did you return to me, says the Lord.
我降瘟疫在你们中间, 像在埃及一样; 用刀杀戮你们的少年人, 使你们的马匹被掳掠, 营中尸首的臭气扑鼻; 你们仍不归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
11 I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did you return to me, says the Lord.
我倾覆你们中间的城邑, 如同我从前倾覆所多玛、蛾摩拉一样, 使你们好像从火中抽出来的一根柴; 你们仍不归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
12 Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your God, O Israel.
以色列啊,我必向你如此行; 以色列啊,我既这样行, 你当预备迎见你的 神。
13 For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.
那创山、造风、将心意指示人、 使晨光变为幽暗、脚踏在地之高处的, 他的名是耶和华—万军之 神。