Amos 6
1 Ai dykk som sit trygge på Sion, utan sut på Samarias berg, dei fremste i det gjævaste folk, som fær vitjing av Israels hus!
Terrible things will happen to you people in Jerusalem who are not worried about anything, and also to you leaders who live on Samaria Hill who think that you are safe. [You think that] [IRO] you are the most important people [in the world], people to whom Israeli people [MTY] go [to get help].
2 Drag burt til Kalne og sjå, og endå lenger, til Stor-Hamat fram, og stig ned til Gat i Filistarland! Er dei betre enn desse riki? Er deira land større enn dykkar?
But go to Calneh [city] and see [what happened there]. Then go to [see] the great [city] Hamath [and see what happened there]. Then go down to Gath [city] in Philistia [and see what happened to their city walls]. Your land/country is certainly not [RHQ] larger or more powerful than their countries were, [but they were all destroyed].
3 De som vond-dagen set på dør og valdsmannen sessar på stol.
You are trying to not think about a day when you will experience disasters, when [your enemies will come and] violently attack you.
4 På filsbeins-sæte dei ligg, og late på pallen dei heng. Av fenaden lambi dei et, og gjødkalv-bingen gjev steik.
You lie on beds [decorated with expensive] ivory, and on [soft] couches. You eat [the tender meat of] lambs and fat calves.
5 Dei sullar til harpe-slått liksom David dei lagar seg spel.
You create/compose new songs and play them on your harps like [King] David did.
6 Av bollar drikk dei vin, og med dyraste olje seg salvar, dei sturar ikkje for Josefs skade.
You drink entire bowlfuls of wine and you put expensive oils/perfumes on your bodies, but you do not grieve about [your country of] Israel [MTY], which is about to be destroyed.
7 Difor skal desse vera fremst i den landlyste flokken, og letings-sullen vert slutt.
Your feasting and lounging [on soft couches] will soon end, and you will be among the first ones to be forced [by your enemies] to go (into exile/to another country).
8 Herren, Herren hev svore ved seg sjølv, segjer Herren, allhers Gud: Jakobs høgferd mislikar eg, eg hatar hans slott, og by og bol gjev eg upp.
Yahweh the Lord has solemnly declared this: “I hate the people of Israel because they are very proud; I detest their fortresses. I will enable [their enemies] to capture their [capital] city and everything in it.”
9 Og um det so berre var tie mann att i eitt einaste hus, dei skal døy.
[When that happens, ] if there are ten people in one house, they will all die.
10 Og frenden og brennaren kjem til å bera beini or huset. Spør han so den som er inst inni huset: «Er det nokon att hjå deg?» Han svarar: «Nei, » so segjer han: «Hyss!» For ikkje må nemnast Herrens namn.
If a relative who (has the task of/is responsible for) burning their corpses comes to the house and inquires of anyone who is still hiding there, “Is there anyone here with you?”, and that person replies “No,” [the one who inquired] will say, “Be quiet! We must not mention the name of Yahweh, [lest he cause us also to be killed]!”
11 For sjå, Herren byd: det store huset skal skakast i knas, og det vesle til dess at det brest.
[Terrible things like that will happen] because Yahweh has commanded that large houses [in Israel] must be smashed into pieces, and small houses must be smashed into tiny bits.
12 Tru hestarne spring i brattberg ikring, tru uksen på sjøen dreg plogen, sidan de til forgift brigdar retten og vender rettferd til malurt?
Horses certainly do not [RHQ] run on big rocks, and certainly people do not [RHQ] plow the sea with oxen. But you have [done things that no one should do]: You have distorted what is fair/right and caused it to be considered like poison [MET]; you have changed what is right and consider it to be like things that are bitter.
13 I heimløyser hev dei si frygd, dei kved: «Var me ikkje hæve, at me hev vunne oss velde?»
You are proud because you have captured Lo-Debar [town], and you have said, “We captured Karnaim by our own power!”
14 For sjå, eg reiser imot dykk, Israels hus, eit folk, segjer Herren, allhers Gud. Og det skal dykk slå, frå Hamats grensa til øydemarks å.
But the Commander of the armies of angels declares, “I will cause another nation to attack you people [MTY] of Israel; they will (oppress you/cause you to suffer) all the way from Hamath Pass [in the northwest] to the Dead Sea [in the southeast].”
