Amos 7
1 Inilah yang diperlihatkan Tuhan ALLAH kepadaku: Tampak Ia membentuk kawanan belalang, pada waktu rumput akhir mulai tumbuh, yaitu rumput akhir sesudah yang dipotong bagi raja.
This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.
2 Ketika belalang mulai menghabisi tumbuh-tumbuhan di tanah, berkatalah aku: "Tuhan ALLAH, berikanlah kiranya pengampunan! Bagaimanakah Yakub dapat bertahan? Bukankah ia kecil?"
And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
3 Maka menyesallah TUHAN karena hal itu. "Itu tidak akan terjadi," firman TUHAN.
The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
4 Inilah yang diperlihatkan Tuhan ALLAH kepadaku: Tampak Tuhan ALLAH memanggil api untuk melakukan hukuman. Api itu memakan habis samudera raya dan akan memakan habis tanah ladang.
This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
5 Lalu aku berkata: "Tuhan ALLAH, hentikanlah kiranya! Bagaimanakah Yakub dapat bertahan? Bukankah ia kecil?"
Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
6 Maka menyesallah TUHAN karena hal itu. "Inipun tidak akan terjadi," firman Tuhan ALLAH.
The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.
7 Inilah yang diperlihatkan-Nya kepadaku: Tampak Tuhan berdiri dekat sebuah tembok yang tegak lurus, dan di tangan-Nya ada tali sipat.
This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.
8 Lalu berfirmanlah TUHAN kepadaku: "Apakah yang kaulihat, Amos?" Jawabku: "Tali sipat!" Berfirmanlah Tuhan: "Sesungguhnya, Aku akan menaruh tali sipat di tengah-tengah umat-Ku Israel; Aku tidak akan memaafkannya lagi.
And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:
9 Bukit-bukit pengorbanan dari pada Ishak akan dilicintandaskan dan tempat-tempat kudus Israel akan diruntuhkan, dan Aku akan bangkit melawan keluarga Yerobeam dengan pedang."
And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 Lalu Amazia, imam di Betel, menyuruh orang menghadap Yerobeam, raja Israel, dengan pesan: "Amos telah mengadakan persepakatan melawan tuanku di tengah-tengah kaum Israel; negeri ini tidak dapat lagi menahan segala perkataannya.
Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.
11 Sebab beginilah dikatakan Amos: Yerobeam akan mati terbunuh oleh pedang dan Israel pasti pergi dari tanahnya sebagai orang buangan."
For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.
12 Lalu berkatalah Amazia kepada Amos: "Pelihat, pergilah, enyahlah ke tanah Yehuda! Carilah makananmu di sana dan bernubuatlah di sana!
And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:
13 Tetapi jangan lagi bernubuat di Betel, sebab inilah tempat kudus raja, inilah bait suci kerajaan."
But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.
14 Jawab Amos kepada Amazia: "Aku ini bukan nabi dan aku ini tidak termasuk golongan nabi, melainkan aku ini seorang peternak dan pemungut buah ara hutan.
Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:
15 Tetapi TUHAN mengambil aku dari pekerjaan menggiring kambing domba, dan TUHAN berfirman kepadaku: Pergilah, bernubuatlah terhadap umat-Ku Israel.
And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
16 Maka sekarang, dengarlah firman TUHAN! Engkau berkata: Janganlah bernubuat menentang Israel, dan janganlah ucapkan perkataan menentang keturunan Ishak.
Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.
17 Sebab itu beginilah firman TUHAN: Isterimu akan bersundal di kota, dan anak-anakmu laki-laki dan perempuan akan tewas oleh pedang; tanahmu akan dibagi-bagikan dengan memakai tali pengukur, engkau sendiri akan mati di tanah yang najis, dan Israel pasti pergi dari tanahnya sebagai orang buangan."
So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.
