Amos 7
1 Yahweh our God showed me [in a vision] that he was going to send locusts [to destroy our crops]. It was going to happen right after the king’s share of the hay had been harvested/cut and before the rest of the hay was ready to be harvested.
[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 in the vision I saw] those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, “Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israeli people are very helpless; (how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?/we will not be able to survive!)”
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 So Yahweh changed his mind and said, “That will not happen.”
上主對這事後悔了。上主說：「這事不會發生。」[神視二：旱災]
4 Then this is what Yahweh our Lord showed me [in another vision]: He was calling to a fire to [come and] punish [his people]. [In the vision I saw that] the fire dried up the ocean and also burned [everything on] the land.
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 Then I cried out again, “Yahweh our Lord, I plead with you, please stop this! We Israeli people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?”
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 So Yahweh changed his mind again, and said, “That also will not happen.”
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 Then Yahweh showed me [another vision]. I saw him standing beside a wall. [It was very straight because] it had been built using a (plumb line/cord with a weight on one end to determine if walls are vertically straight). Yahweh had the plumb line in his hand.
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 Yahweh asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then Yahweh said, “Look, I am going to use a plumb line among my Israeli people, [to show that they are like a wall that is not straight]. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
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 The places on hills where [the descendants of] [MTY] Isaac worship [idols] will be destroyed. And the other important shrines in Israel will also be destroyed. And I will enable [your enemies] to attack your people with swords and they will get rid of [King] Jeroboam and all his descendants.”
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 Then Amaziah, the priest at Bethel, sent [a message] to Jeroboam, the King of Israel. In the message he said, “Amos is plotting against you among the Israeli people [MTY]. [I am worried that] the people of this country will not be able to refute 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 This is what he is saying: ‘Jeroboam will soon be killed by [someone using] a sword, and the people of Israel will be (exiled/forced to leave their land and go to another country).’”
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 Then Amaziah [came to me and] said, “You prophet, get out of here! Go back to the country of Judah! Earn money to [buy food to be able] to live there, and do your prophesying there!
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 Do not prophesy any more here at Bethel, because this is where the national temple, the king’s temple, is!”
在貝特耳不可講預言，因為這裏是君王的殿宇。」
14 I replied to Amaziah, “I was [previously] not a prophet, and my father was not a prophet; I was a shepherd. I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
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 But Yahweh took me away from taking care of my sheep, and he said to me, ‘Go to Israel and prophesy to my people there!’
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 You said to me, ‘Do not prophecy saying terrible things will happen to [the people of] Israel; stop saying those things!’
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 listen to what Yahweh says about you: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons and daughters will be killed by [your enemies’] swords. Others will measure your land and divide it up [among themselves]; and you yourself will die in a foreign country. And the people of Israel will certainly be forced to leave their country and go (into exile/to live in another country).’”
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。」
