Amos Propheta 5
1 audite verbum istud quod ego levo super vos planctum domus Israhel cecidit non adiciet ut resurgat
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
2 virgo Israhel proiecta est in terram suam non est qui suscitet eam
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one 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 Israhel
This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
4 quia haec dicit Dominus domui Israhel quaerite me et vivetis
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
5 et nolite quaerere Bethel et in Galgala nolite intrare et in Bersabee non transibitis quia Galgala captiva ducetur et Bethel erit inutilis
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
6 quaerite Dominum et vivite ne forte conburatur ut ignis domus Ioseph et devorabit et non erit qui extinguat Bethel
Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
7 qui convertitis in absinthium iudicium et iustitiam in terra relinquitis
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
8 facientem Arcturum et Orionem et convertentem in mane tenebras et diem nocte mutantem qui vocat aquas maris et effundit eas super faciem terrae Dominus nomen eius
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
9 qui subridet vastitatem super robustum et depopulationem super potentem adfert
He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
10 odio habuerunt in porta corripientem et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
11 idcirco pro eo quod diripiebatis pauperem et praedam electam tollebatis ab eo domos quadro lapide aedificabitis et non habitabitis in eis vineas amantissimas plantabitis et non bibetis vinum earum
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
12 quia cognovi multa scelera vestra et fortia peccata vestra hostes iusti accipientes munus et pauperes in porta deprimentes
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
13 ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit quia tempus malum est
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
14 quaerite bonum et non malum ut vivatis et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum sicut dixistis
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
15 odite malum et diligite bonum et constituite in porta iudicium si forte misereatur Dominus Deus exercituum reliquiis Ioseph
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, 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 this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
17 et in omnibus vineis erit planctus quia pertransibo in medio tui dicit Dominus
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,”
18 vae desiderantibus diem Domini ad quid eam vobis dies Domini ista tenebrae et non lux
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be 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
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
20 numquid non tenebrae dies Domini et non lux et caligo et non splendor in ea
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
21 odi et proieci festivitates vestras et non capiam odorem coetuum vestrorum
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
22 quod si adtuleritis mihi holocaustomata et munera vestra non suscipiam et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam
Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
23 aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum et cantica lyrae tuae non audiam
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 et revelabitur quasi aqua iudicium et iustitia quasi torrens fortis
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis domus Israhel
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26 et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro et imaginem idolorum vestrorum sidus dei vestri quae fecistis vobis
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
27 et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum dixit Dominus Deus exercituum nomen eius
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
