Amos 4
1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, Who [are] on the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: “Bring in, and we 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 Lord YHWH has sworn by His holiness, “Behold, days are coming on you, And He has taken you away with hooks, And your posterity with fish-hooks.
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 [by] breaches you go forth, A woman before her, And you have cast down the high place,” A declaration of YHWH.
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 “Enter Beth-El, and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression, And bring in your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every third year.
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 burn a thank-offering with leaven as incense, And proclaim willing gifts, sound! For so you have loved, O sons of Israel,” A declaration of Lord YHWH.
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—I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places, And you have not turned back to Me,” A declaration of YHWH.
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 I also—I have withheld from you the rain, While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it does not rain withers.
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 And two or three cities have wandered, To the same city to drink water, And they are not satisfied, And you have not turned back to Me,” A declaration of YHWH.
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 struck you with blasting and with mildew, The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, And of your figs, and of your olives, The palmer-worm eats, And you have not turned back to Me,” A declaration of YHWH.
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 pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain your choice ones by sword, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up—Even into your nostrils, And you have not turned back to Me,” A declaration of YHWH.
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 overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And you are as a brand delivered from a burning, And you have not turned back to Me,” A declaration of YHWH.
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 I do to you, O Israel, at last, Because this I do 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, the Former of mountains, and Creator of wind, And the Declarer to man what [is] His thought, He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on high places of earth, YHWH, 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。
