Amos Propheta 6
1 Vae qui opulenti estis in Sion, et confiditis in monte Samariae: optimates capita populorum, ingredientes pompatice domum Israel.
Woe to them that set at nought Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered [the harvest of] the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.
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.
O house of Israel, pass by all [of you], and see; and pass by thence to Ematrabba; and thence descend to Geth of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, [see] if their coasts are greater than your coasts.
3 Qui separati estis in diem malum: et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis.
Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths;
4 Qui dormitis in lectis eburneis, et lascivitis in stratis vestris: qui comeditis agnum de grege, et vitulos de medio armenti.
who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;
5 Qui canitis ad vocem psalterii: sicut David putaverunt se habere vasa cantici.
who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting [pleasures];
6 Bibentes vinum in phialis, et optimo unguento delibuti: et nihil patiebantur super contritione Ioseph.
who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.
7 Quapropter nunc migrabunt in capite transmigrantium: et auferetur factio lascivientium.
Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.
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.
For the Lord has sworn by himself, [saying], Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off [his] city with all who inhabit it.
9 Quod si reliqui fuerint decem viri in domo una, et ipsi morientur.
And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall 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.
But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet [any one] else with thee? And he shall say, No [one] else. And [the other] shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord.
11 Quia ecce Dominus mandabit, et percutiet domum maiorem ruinis, et domum minorem scissionibus.
For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents.
12 Numquid currere queunt in petris equi, aut arari potest in bubalis, quoniam convertistis in amaritudinem iudicium, et fructum iustitiae in absinthium?
Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:
13 Qui laetamini in nihilo: qui dicitis: Numquid non in fortitudine nostra assumpsimus nobis cornua?
ye who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns 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, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, saith the Lord of hosts; and they shall afflict you so that ye shall not enter into Aemath, and as it were [from] the river of the wilderness.
