Amos 9
1 I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He says, “Strike the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head—all of them, And I slay their posterity with a sword, None that flee of them flee away, Nor a fugitive of them escape.
[神視五：號上主消滅惡人無一倖免]我看見吾主站在祭壇旁，擊打柱帽，門限震動。衪說：「我要砍下他們眾人的頭，剩下的要用刀殺盡；他們中一個也逃不了，一個也不能幸免生存。
2 If they dig through into Sheol, From there My hand takes them, And if they go up [to] the heavens, From there I cause them to come down. (Sheol h7585)
既使鑽入陰府，我的手必從那裏將他們揪出；既使飛上高天，我也必從那裏將他們拉下； (Sheol h7585)
3 And if they are hid in the top of Carmel, From there I search out, and have taken them, And if they are hid from My eyes in the bottom of the sea, From there I command the serpent, And it has bitten them.
既使藏在加爾默耳山頂，我必去搜尋，從那裏逮回；既使避開我的眼目逃入海底，我也必令蛟龍將他們咬死；
4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I command the sword, And it has slain them, And I have set My eye on them for evil, And not for good.”
既使在敵人面前被擄去充軍，我必命刀劍殺死他們；我的眼注視他們，是為加害，不是為祝福。」
5 And [it is] the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, Who is striking against the land, and it melts, And mourned have all the inhabitants in it, And all of it has come up as a flood, And it has sunk—like the flood of Egypt.
吾主上主一觸摸大地，大地就溶化，地上所有的居民便都哀號，全地泛濫有如尼羅，退落有如埃及大河。
6 Who is building His upper chambers in the heavens; As for His troop, On earth He has founded it, Who is calling for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the land, YHWH [is] His Name.
衪在高天建造了樓閣，在地上奠定了穹蒼，召海水傾流於地面，衪名叫「雅威」。
7 “Are you not as sons of Cushim to Me, O sons of Israel?” A declaration of YHWH. “Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt? And the Philistines from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?
以色列子民! 你們對我豈不是像雇士子民﹖──上主的斷語──豈不是我由埃及領出了以色列，由加非托爾領出了培肋舍特人，由克爾領出了阿蘭人﹖
8 Behold, [the] eyes of Lord YHWH [are] on the sinful kingdom, And I have destroyed it from off the face of the ground, Only, I do not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” A declaration of YHWH.
看，吾主上主的眼注視這犯罪的國家，我必由此地面上將她消滅。然而我不全然消滅雅各伯家──上主的斷語──
9 “For behold, I am commanding, And I have shaken among all the nations the house of Israel, As [one] shakes with a sieve, And there does not fall a grain [to] the earth.
看，我必下令，要在萬民中如人用篩子篩以色列，不讓一粒落在地上。
10 By sword all sinners of My people die, Who are saying, Evil does not overtake, or go before, For our sakes.
我百姓中那些人說：「災禍不會臨近，不會來到我們身上」的一罪人，都要死在刀下。
11 In that day I raise the dwelling place of David that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And I raise up its ruins, And I have built it up as in days of old,
在那一天，我必樹起達味已塌蹋的帳幕，修補它的缺口，重建它的廢壚：使它重建有如往日，
12 So that they possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations on whom My Name is called,” A declaration of YHWH—the doer of this.
使他們征服厄木田的遣民和屬於我名下的萬民──行這事的上主的斷語──
13 “Behold, days are coming,” A declaration of YHWH, “And the plowman has come near to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed, And the mountains have dropped juice, And all the hills melt.
看，時日將到，──上主的斷語──那時耕田的人要緊靠著收割的人，榨洒的人要緊靠著播種的人；山嶺要滴下新酒，丘陵都要溶化奔流。
14 And I have turned back [to] the captivity of My people Israel, And they have built desolate cities, and inhabited, And have planted vineyards, and drunk their wine, And made gardens, and eaten their fruit.
我必要轉變我民以色列的命運，他們必要重建已荒廢的城市，再住在其中；栽植葡萄園，飲其中的美酒；耕種田園，吃其中出產。
15 And I have planted them on their own ground, And they are not plucked up anymore from off their own ground, That I have given to them,” said your God YHWH!
我要將他們栽植在自己的地內，他們不會再從我賜與他們的地上被拔除──上主你的天主說。
