Amos 5
1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
Audite verbum istud, quod ego levo super vos planctum. Domus Israel cecidit, et non adiiciet ut resurgat.
2 “The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”
Virgo Israel proiecta est in terram suam, non est qui suscitet eam.
3 For the Lord Yahweh says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
Quia haec dicit Dominus Deus: Urbs, de qua egrediebantur mille, relinquentur in ea centum: et de qua egrediebantur centum, relinquentur in ea decem in domo Israel.
4 For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
Quia haec dicit Dominus domui Israel: Quaerite me, et vivetis.
5 but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
Et nolite quaerere Bethel, et in Galgalam nolite intrare, et in Bersabee non transibitis: quia Galgala captiva ducetur, et Bethel erit inutilis.
6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
Quaerite Dominum, et vivite: ne forte comburatur ut ignis domus Ioseph, et devorabit, et non erit qui extinguat Bethel.
7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Qui convertitis in absinthium iudicium, et iustitiam in terra relinquitis.
8 Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
Facientem Arcturum, et Orionem, et convertentem in mane tenebras, et diem in noctem mutantem: qui vocat aquas maris, et effundit eas super faciem terrae: Dominus nomen est eius.
9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
Qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta: et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.
11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Idcirco, pro eo quod diripiebatis pauperem, et praedam electam tollebatis ab eo: domos quadro lapide aedificabitis, et non habitabitis in eis: vineas plantabis amantissimas, et non bibetis vinum earum.
12 For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.
Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra: hostes iusti accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta:
13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit, quia tempus malum est.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
Quaerite bonum, et non malum, ut vivatis: et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum, sicut dixistis.
15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Odite malum, et diligite bonum, et constituite in porta iudicium: si forte misereatur Dominus Deus exercituum reliquiis Ioseph.
16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
Propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus exercituum dominator, in omnibus plateis planctus: et in cunctis, quae foris sunt, dicetur vae vae: et vocabunt agricolam ad luctum, et ad planctum eos, qui sciunt plangere.
17 In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
Et in omnibus vineis erit planctus: quia pertransibo in medio tui, dicit Dominus.
18 “Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
Vae desiderantibus diem Domini: ad quid eam vobis? dies Domini ista, tenebrae, et non lux.
19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
Quomodo si fugiat vir a facie leonis, et occurrat ei ursus: et ingrediatur domum, et innitatur manu sua super parietem, et mordeat eum coluber.
20 Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Numquid non tenebrae dies Domini, et non lux: et caligo, et non splendor in ea?
21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
Odi, et proieci festivitates vestras: et non capiam odorem coetuum vestrorum.
22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocaustomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam: et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum: et cantica lyrae tuae non audiam.
24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Et revelabitur quasi aqua iudicium, et iustitia quasi torrens fortis.
25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israel?
26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
Et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro, et imaginem idolorum vestrorum, sidus dei vestri, quae fecistis vobis.
27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.
Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus, Deus exercituum nomen eius.
