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
Listen to the words of the funeral song I am singing for you, 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
Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel! Hurled down upon her own soil she lies, with no one to lift 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
For the Lord God says this: The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers has only a hundred left, and the one that marches out with a hundred has only ten left.
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 the Lord says this to 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
But do not seek Bethel, do not enter Gilgal, do not go over to Beer-sheba. For Gilgal will enter exile, and Bethel will go to destruction.
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焼ん 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 cast fire on the house of Joseph, and it will devour and there will be no one to quench it for Bethel.
7 汝ら公道を茵蔯に變じ正義を地に擲つる者よ
You who turn judgment to bitter wormwood, and cast righteousness into the dirt:
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 deep darkness into dawn, who darkens day again into night, who summons the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the earth’s surface, 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 causes destruction to burst over the strong. He brings devastation on the fortress.
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
You who hate the arbiters at the city gate, and abhor anyone who speaks the truth:
11 汝らは貧し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
Because you trample on the weak, and tax their grain, although you have built houses of hewn stone, you will not live in them, although you have planted charming vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
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 how many are your crimes, and how great are your sins! You persecutors of the righteous, takers of bribes! You deny the poor their justice at the city gate.
13 是故に今の時は賢き者黙す 是惡き時なればなり
It would be wise to keep quiet in such an evil 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
Seek good and not evil, that you may live, so the Lord, God of hosts, may be with you, as you have claimed he is.
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 at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to a surviving 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 the Lord, the God of hosts, says: In all the public squares there will be wailing, in every street the sound of mourning. They will summon the farmers to mourning, and professional mourners to wailing.
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
In all vineyards there will be lamenting, when I pass through your midst, says 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
Fools who long for the day of the Lord! What does the day of the Lord mean to you? It is 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 is as when one flees from a lion, and is attacked by a bear, as when one reaches home, leans his hand on the wall, and a snake bites 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
Won’t the Lord’s day be darkness and not light, murky darkness without a ray of 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, I despise your feasts, I will not smell the savor of your festivals,
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
I will not be pleased with your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, I will not accept the peace offerings of your fattened calves.
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
Spare me the noise of your songs, I will not listen to the melody of your lyres.
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 as a flood of waters, and righteousness like an unfailing 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
Was it only sacrifices and grain offerings you brought me during the forty years in the wilderness, 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 now you will lift up your “king” Sikkuth and “star god” Kiyyun, your idols which you have 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
as I drive you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.
