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 against you, [even] a lamentation, 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 forsaken 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 saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth [by] a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 Quia haec dicit Dominus domui Israel: Quaerite me, et vivetis.
For thus saith the LORD 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 Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el 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 the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Beth-el.
7 Qui convertitis in absinthium iudicium, et iustitiam in terra relinquitis.
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on 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] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shades of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: JEHOVAH [is] his name:
9 Qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta: et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh 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.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
12 Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra: hostes iusti accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta:
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
13 Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit, quia tempus malum est.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that 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 the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
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 judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD 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 the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful 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 thee, saith the LORD.
18 Vae desiderantibus diem Domini: ad quid eam vobis? dies Domini ista, tenebrae, et non lux.
Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [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 the LORD [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 feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocaustomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam: et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.
Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings, I will not accept [them]; neither 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 judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israel?
Have ye offered to me sacrifices and offerings 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.
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, 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, saith the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts.
