Amos Propheta 6
1 Vae qui opulenti estis in Sion, et confiditis in monte Samariae: optimates capita populorum, ingredientes pompatice domum Israel.
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
2 Transite in Chalane, et videte, et ite inde in Emath magnam: et descendite in Geth Palaesthinorum, et ad optima quaeque regna horum: si latior terminus eorum termino vestro est.
Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
3 Qui separati estis in diem malum: et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis.
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
4 Qui dormitis in lectis eburneis, et lascivitis in stratis vestris: qui comeditis agnum de grege, et vitulos de medio armenti.
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
5 Qui canitis ad vocem psalterii: sicut David putaverunt se habere vasa cantici.
You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
6 Bibentes vinum in phialis, et optimo unguento delibuti: et nihil patiebantur super contritione Ioseph.
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
7 Quapropter nunc migrabunt in capite transmigrantium: et auferetur factio lascivientium.
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
8 Iuravit Dominus Deus in anima sua, dicit Dominus Deus exercituum: Detestor ego superbiam Iacob, et domos eius odi, et tradam civitatem cum habitatoribus suis.
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
9 Quod si reliqui fuerint decem viri in domo una, et ipsi morientur.
And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
10 Et tollet eum propinquus suus, et comburet eum, ut efferat ossa de domo: et dicet ei, qui in penetralibus domus est: Numquid adhuc est penes te? Et respondebit: Finis est. Et dicet ei: Tace, et non recorderis nominis Domini.
And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
11 Quia ecce Dominus mandabit, et percutiet domum maiorem ruinis, et domum minorem scissionibus.
For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
12 Numquid currere queunt in petris equi, aut arari potest in bubalis, quoniam convertistis in amaritudinem iudicium, et fructum iustitiae in absinthium?
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
13 Qui laetamini in nihilo: qui dicitis: Numquid non in fortitudine nostra assumpsimus nobis cornua?
you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’
14 Ecce enim suscitabo super vos domus Israel, dicit Dominus Deus exercituum, gentem: et conteret vos ab introitu Emath, usque ad torrentem deserti.
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
