Amos 7
1 Thus Lord YHWH has showed me, and behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the ascending of the latter growth, and behold, the latter growth [is] after the mowings of the king [[or King Gog]];
[神視一：蝗災]吾主上主叫我看見這事：割完君王的青草，當晚草初生時，蝗蟲出現了。
2 and it has come to pass, when it has finished to consume the herb of the land, that I say, “Lord YHWH, please forgive, How does Jacob arise—for he [is] small?”
當蝗蟲要吃光地上的青草時，我就說：「吾主上主，求你饒恕吧! 雅各伯還怎能存在﹖他已這樣弱小! 」
3 YHWH has relented of this, “It will not be,” said YHWH.
上主對這事後悔了。上主說：「這事不會發生。」[神視二：旱災]
4 Thus has Lord YHWH showed me, and behold, Lord YHWH is calling to contend by the fire, and it consumes the great deep, indeed, it has consumed the portion, and I say,
吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，吾主上主召來懲罰的火，燒毀了廣大的深淵，又燒毀了上主的基業。
5 “Lord YHWH, please cease, How does Jacob arise—for he [is] small?”
我就說：「吾主上主! 求你罷休! 雅各伯還怎能存在﹖他已這樣弱小! 」
6 YHWH has relented of this, “It also will not be,” said Lord YHWH.
上主對這事後悔了。吾主上主說：「這事也不會發生。」[神視三：鉛垂線]
7 Thus has He showed me, and behold, the Lord is standing by a wall [made according to] a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line;
吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，有一個人立在牆上，手中拿著一條鉛垂線。
8 and YHWH says to me, “What are you seeing, Amos?” And I say, “A plumb-line”; and the Lord says: “Behold, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Israel, I no longer pass over to it.
上主對我說：「亞毛斯，你看見了什麼﹖」我答說：「一條鉛垂線。」吾主說：「看，我將鉛垂線安置在我民族以色列當中，我不再放過她。
9 And high places of Isaac have been desolated, And sanctuaries of Israel are dried up, And I have risen against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.”
依撒格的高丘必要荒蕪，以色列的聖所必要廢棄；我必起來攻擊雅洛貝罕家。」
10 And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sends to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words,
那時，貝特耳司祭阿瑪責雅派人向以色列王雅洛貝罕說：「亞毛斯在以色列家中圖謀背叛你，國家再不能容受他的一切言論，
11 for thus said Amos: Jeroboam dies by sword, And Israel certainly removes from off its land.”
因為亞毛斯這樣說：雅洛貝罕必死於刀下，以色列必被據去充軍，遠離本土。」
12 And Amaziah says to Amos, “Seer, go, flee to the land of Judah for yourself, and eat bread there, and there you prophesy;
事後，阿瑪責雅又向亞毛斯說：「先見者，你走吧! 趕快到猶大國去，在那裏餬口，在那裏講預言。
13 and no longer prophesy [at] Beth-El anymore, for it [is] the king’s sanctuary, and it [is] the royal house.”
在貝特耳不可講預言，因為這裏是君王的殿宇。」
14 And Amos answers and says to Amaziah, “I [am] no prophet, nor [am] I a prophet’s son, but I [am] a herdsman, and a cultivator of sycamores,
亞毛斯回答阿瑪責雅說：「我原不是先知，也不是先知的弟子，只是一個放羊兼修剪野無花果的人。
15 and YHWH takes me from after the flock, and YHWH says to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.
但是，上主正在我趕羊時提了我來。上主對我說：你去向我的百姓以色列講預言吧!
16 And now, hear a word of YHWH: You are saying, Do not prophesy against Israel, nor drop [anything] against the house of Isaac,
現在你且聽上主說什麼。你說：不要講預言攻擊以色列，不要發言反對依撒格家!
17 therefore, thus said YHWH: Your wife goes whoring in the city, And your sons and your daughters fall by sword, And your land is apportioned by line, And you die on an unclean land, And Israel certainly removes from off its land.”
為此，上主這樣說：你的妻子必在城中賣淫，你的子女必喪生刀下，你的田地必被人以繩墨瓜分，你m在不潔之地，以色列必被據去充軍，遠離本土。」
