Amos Propheta 5
1 Audite verbum istud, quod ego levo super vos planctum. Domus Israel cecidit, et non adiiciet ut resurgat.
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
2 Virgo Israel proiecta est in terram suam, non est qui suscitet eam.
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 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.
For thus says the lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.
4 Quia haec dicit Dominus domui Israel: Quaerite me, et vivetis.
For thus says Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.
5 Et nolite quaerere Bethel, et in Galgalam nolite intrare, et in Bersabee non transibitis: quia Galgala captiva ducetur, et Bethel erit inutilis.
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba. For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.
6 Quaerite Dominum, et vivite: ne forte comburatur ut ignis domus Ioseph, et devorabit, et non erit qui extinguat Bethel.
Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 Qui convertitis in absinthium iudicium, et iustitiam in terra relinquitis.
Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
8 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.
seek him who makes 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 upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name),
9 Qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
who brings sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
10 Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta: et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.
11 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.
Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
12 Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra: hostes iusti accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta:
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate.
13 Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit, quia tempus malum est.
Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.
14 Quaerite bonum, et non malum, ut vivatis: et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum, sicut dixistis.
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.
15 Odite malum, et diligite bonum, et constituite in porta iudicium: si forte misereatur Dominus Deus exercituum reliquiis Ioseph.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
16 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.
Therefore thus says Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways. And they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
17 Et in omnibus vineis erit planctus: quia pertransibo in medio tui, dicit Dominus.
And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, says Jehovah.
18 Vae desiderantibus diem Domini: ad quid eam vobis? dies Domini ista, tenebrae, et non lux.
Woe to you who desire the day of Jehovah! Why would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.
19 Quomodo si fugiat vir a facie leonis, et occurrat ei ursus: et ingrediatur domum, et innitatur manu sua super parietem, et mordeat eum coluber.
As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Numquid non tenebrae dies Domini, et non lux: et caligo, et non splendor in ea?
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 Odi, et proieci festivitates vestras: et non capiam odorem coetuum vestrorum.
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocaustomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam: et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.
Yea, though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum: et cantica lyrae tuae non audiam.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24 Et revelabitur quasi aqua iudicium, et iustitia quasi torrens fortis.
But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israel?
Did ye bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 Et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro, et imaginem idolorum vestrorum, sidus dei vestri, quae fecistis vobis.
Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, your images which ye made to yourselves.
27 Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus, Deus exercituum nomen eius.
Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
