Amos 2
1 So segjer Herren: For trifald misgjerd av Moab, for firfald eg ikkje meg attrar. For di dei brende beini åt Edom-kongen til kalk,
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.
2 so sender eg eld imot Moab, han skal øyda Kerijots borgar. Og i ståket Moab skal døy, med hergny og luraljod skrell.
And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:
3 Domaren deira eg tynar, alle hovdingarn’ likeins eg drep, segjer Herren.
And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.
4 So segjer Herren: For trifald misgjerd av Juda, for firfald eg ikkje meg attrar. Då dei vanvyrde Herrens lov og heldt ikkje bodordi hans, men let seg av lygn-gudar dåra, som federne fyrr hadde fylgt,
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.
5 so sender eg eld imot Juda, han skal øyda Jerusalems borger.
And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.
6 So segjer Herren: For trifald misgjerd av Israel og for firfald eg ikkje meg attrar. For sylv dei sel ein skuldlaus og ein arming for eit par skor,
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
7 dei som helst ser mold på ein stakkars hovud, og rengjer småfolks rett. Til same gjenta gjeng far og son til vanhelging for mitt heilage namn.
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
8 Og på pantsette klæde ved kvart eit altar dei ligg, og skadebots-vin dei drikk i huset til sin Gud.
By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
9 Det var då eg som dreiv amoritarne frå deim, som høge som cedertre var, og sterke som eiker, men eg tynte alda i topp og roti i jord.
Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.
10 Det var eg som dykk førde frå Egyptarland og dykk leidde i villmarki fram gjenom fyrti år til å vinna Amorit-landet.
And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.
11 Eg vekte profetar av dykkar søner, naziræarar bland dykkar ungdomar. Er det’kje so, de Israels-born? Segjer Herren.
And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.
12 Men de gav naziræaran’ vin, og baud profetarn’ og sagde: «Profetera ikkje!»
But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
13 Sjå no skal eg lata det dynja under dykk som under ei full-lest kornvogn.
See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.
14 Og den rappe kjem ingen stad av, og den sterke fær’kje bruka si magt, og kjempa skal’kje berga sitt liv.
And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:
15 Mannen med bogen er magtlaus, og lett på fot kann’kje berga seg, og mannen på hest skal’kje berga sitt liv.
And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.
16 Hugdjervaste kjempa ho lyt naken røma på dagen den, segjer Herren.
And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.
