アモス書 5
1 イスラエルの家よ我が汝らに對ひて宣る此言を聽け 是は哀歎の歌なり
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
2 處女イスラエルは仆れて復起あがらず彼は己の地に扑倒さる 之を扶け起す者なし
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
3 主ヱホバかく言たまふ イスラエルの家においては前に千人出たる邑は只百人のみのこり前に百人出たる邑は只十人のみのこらん
This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
4 ヱホバかくイスラエルの家に言たまふ 汝ら我を求めよ さらば生べし
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
5 ベテルを求むるなかれ ギルガルに往なかれ ベエルシバに赴く勿れ ギルガルは必ず擄へられゆきベテルは無に歸せん
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
6 汝らヱホバを求めよ 然ば生べし 恐くはヱホバ火のごとくにヨセフの家に落くだりたまひてその火これを燒ん ベテルのためにこれを熄す者一人もあらじ
Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
7 汝ら公道を茵蔯に變じ正義を地に擲つる者よ
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
8 昴宿および參宿を造り死の蔭を變じて朝となし晝を暗くして夜となし海の水を呼て地の面に溢れさする者を求めよ 其名はヱホバといふ
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
9 彼は滅亡を忽然強者に臨ましむ 滅亡つひに城に臨む
He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
10 彼らは門にありて勸戒る者を惡み正直を言ふ者を忌嫌ふ
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
11 汝らは貧き者を踐つけ麥の贐物を之より取る この故に汝らは鑿石の家を建しと雖どもその中に住ことあらじ 美しき葡萄園を作りしと雖どもその酒を飮ことあらじ
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
12 我知る汝らの愆は多く汝らの罪は大なり 汝らは義き者を虐げ賄賂を取り門において貧き者を推抂ぐ
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
13 是故に今の時は賢き者默す 是惡き時なればなり
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
14 汝ら善を求めよ 惡を求めざれ 然らば汝ら生べし また汝らが言ごとく萬軍の神ヱホバ汝らと偕に在さん
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
15 汝ら惡を惡み善を愛し門にて公義を立よ 萬軍の神ヱホバあるひはヨセフの遺れる者を憐れみたまはん
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
16 是故に主たる萬軍の神ヱホバかく言たまふ 諸の街衢にて啼ことあらん 諸の大路にて人哀哉哀哉と呼ん 又農夫を呼きたりて哀哭しめ啼女を招きて啼しめん
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
17 また諸の葡萄園にも啼こと有べし 其は我汝らの中を通るべければなり ヱホバこれを言たまふ
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,”
18 ヱホバの日を望む者は禍なるかな 汝ら何とてヱホバの日を望むや 是は昏くして光なし
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
19 人獅子の前を逃れて熊に遇ひ又家にいりてその手を壁に附て蛇に咬るるに宛も似たり
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
20 ヱホバの日は昏くして光なく暗にして耀なきに非ずや
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
21 我は汝らの節筵を惡みかつ藐視む また汝らの集會を悦ばじ
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
22 汝ら我に燔祭または素祭を獻ぐるとも我之を受納れじ 汝らの肥たる犢の感謝祭は我これを顧みじ
Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
23 汝らの歌の聲を我前に絶て汝らの琴の音は我これを聽じ
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 公道を水のごとくに正義をつきざる河のごとくに流れしめよ
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 イスラエルの家よ汝らは四十年荒野に居し間犠牲と供物を我に獻げたりしや
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26 かへつて汝らは汝らの王シクテを負ひ汝らの偶像キウンを負へり 是即ち汝らの神とする星にして汝らの自ら造り設けし者なり
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
27 然ば我汝らをダマスコの外に移さん 萬軍の神ととなふるヱホバこれを言たまふ
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
