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
Heare ye this worde, which I lift vp vpon you, euen a lamentation of the house of Israel.
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
The virgine Israel is fallen, and shall no more rise: shee is left vpon her lande, and there is none to raise her vp.
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
For thus saith ye Lord God, The citie which went out by a thousand, shall leaue an hundreth: and that which went forth by an hundreth, shall leaue ten to 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 thus saith the Lord vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye me, and ye shall liue.
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
But seeke not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and go not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall goe into captiuitie, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
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
Seeke the Lord, and yee shall liue, least he breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph and deuoure it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
7 汝ら公道を茵蔯に變じ正義を地に擲つる者よ
They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth.
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 maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open 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 strengtheneth the destroyer against the mightie: and the destroyer shall come against the fortresse.
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
They haue hated him, that rebuked in the gate: and they abhorred him that speaketh vprightly.
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
Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.
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 your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, and they oppresse the poore in ye 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 shall keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.
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
Seeke good and not euil, that ye may liue: and the Lord God of hostes shalbe with you, as you haue spoken.
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 the euil, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may bee that the Lord God of hostes will be mercifull vnto the remnant of Ioseph.
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
Therfore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord saith thus, Mourning shalbe in all streetes: and they shall say in al the hie wayes, Alas, alas: and they shall call the husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourne, to mourning.
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
And in al the vines shalbe lamentation: for I wil passe through thee, saith the Lord.
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 vnto you, that desire the day of the Lord: what haue you to do with it? the day of the Lord is darkenes 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
As if a man did flee from a lyon, and a beare met him: or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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
Shal not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen darkenes and no light 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 and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smelll in your solemne 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
Though ye offer me burnt offrings and meat offrings, I wil not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offrings of your fat beasts.
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 thou away from me the multitude of thy songs (for I wil not heare the melodie of thy violes)
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
And let iudgement runne downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie riuer.
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
Haue ye offered vnto me sacrifices and offrings in the wildernesse fourtie yeeres, 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
But you haue borne Siccuth your King, and Chiun your images, and the starre of your gods, which ye made to your selues.
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 wil I cause you to goe into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose Name is the God of hostes.
