Amós 4
1 Escuchen estas palabras, vacas de Basán que están en la montaña de Samaria, quienes oprimen a los pobres, quebrantan a los necesitados y dicen a sus esposos: ¡Traigan para que bebamos!
You [wealthy women] of Samaria [have grown fat like] [MET] the fat cows of the Bashan [region]. You oppress poor people and you cause needy people to suffer. And you say to your husbands, “Bring us [more wine] to drink!”
2 ʼAdonay Yavé juró por su santidad: Ciertamente vienen días sobre ustedes cuando serán llevados con garfios, y a sus descendientes, con anzuelos de pescador.
But Yahweh [our] God has said this: “Because I am holy, I solemnly promise this: It will [soon] be the time when you all will be taken [to another country]; [your enemies will take you away as though they are] using sharp hooks [DOU] [to grab you].
3 Ustedes saldrán por las brechas, cada una delante de ella, y serán echadas al Armón, dice Yavé.
[Your enemies] will drag you out through breaks/holes [in your city walls], and they will throw you outside the city. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!
4 Vayan a Bet-ʼEl, rebélense a Gilgal y multipliquen la rebelión. Lleven sus sacrificios por la mañana y sus diezmos cada tres días.
Go to Bethel and Gilgal [towns where many people worship me] and sin more and more [SAR]! [I say that not because I want you to do it], [but because it is what you have always been doing]! Offer sacrifices on the morning [after you arrive], [and bring me] (a tithe/one tenth) of your crops the next day.
5 Ofrezcan ofrenda de acción de gracias con pan leudado. Proclamen ofrendas voluntarias, porque aman esto, oh hijos de Israel, dice ʼAdonay Yavé.
Bring offerings of bread to thank me, and [other] offerings that are not required/commanded, and boast about [these offerings that you bring], because that is what you like to do, [but you do it to impress others, not to please me]. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it.
6 Pero yo también les di limpieza de dientes en todas sus ciudades y carencia de pan en todas sus aldeas. Sin embargo, no regresaron a Mí, dice Yavé.
I [am the one who] caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns [DOU], but you rejected me in spite of that.
7 Les retuve la lluvia tres meses antes de la cosecha. Hice llover en un pueblo y en otro no. En una parcela llovía y otra se secaba sin lluvia.
When it was still three months before [the time of] harvesting [crops], [at the time when your crops needed rain the most], I prevented rain from falling. [Sometimes] I allowed rain to fall on some towns and prevented it from falling on other towns. Rain fell on some fields, but it did not fall on other fields, with the result that [the soil in] those fields [where it did not rain] dried up.
8 De dos o tres pueblos iban a otro para beber agua, y no se saciaban, pero no se volvieron a Mí, dice Yavé.
People would stagger from one town to another town to find water, but they could not even get enough water to drink, but in spite of that, you have not returned to me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!
9 Los golpeé con ráfagas de viento y con honguillo. La persistente langosta devoró sus huertos y sus viñas, higueras y olivos, pero no regresaron a Mí, dice Yavé.
I caused your grain fields to dry up; I caused your gardens and vineyards to be struck/destroyed by (blight/hot winds) and mildew. [I sent] locusts to eat [the leaves on] your fig trees and olive trees, but in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!
10 Les envié la mortandad y maté a espada a sus jóvenes junto con sus caballos capturados. Hice que la hediondez de su campamento subiera a sus fosas nasales, pero no regresaron a Mí, dice Yavé.
I caused you to experience (plagues/severe sicknesses) like the plagues [that I sent to the people] of Egypt. I caused [many of] your young men to die in battles. I allowed [your enemies] to capture your horses. [Many of your soldiers were killed, ] and I caused your camps to be filled with the smell/stink of their [decaying] corpses. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!
11 Los destruí como ʼElohim destruyó a Sodoma y Gomorra. Fueron como un tizón salvado de la llama, pero no se volvieron a Mí, dice dice Yavé.
I got rid of many of you, like I got rid of [the people in] Sodom and Gomorrah. [Those of] you who [did not die] were like [SIM] a burning stick that was snatched from a fire [so that it would not burn completely]. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it!
12 Por tanto, oh Israel, así te haré a ti. Porque haré esto contigo, ¡prepárate para salir al encuentro de tu ʼElohim, oh Israel!
So [now], you [people of] Israel, I am going to punish you. Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, [when I judge you]!
13 Porque ciertamente el que forma montañas, crea el viento, y declara al hombre cuáles son sus pensamientos, el que saca la aurora de la oscuridad y pisa sobre las alturas de la tierra se llama Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes.
I created the mountains, and [I] created winds. I reveal to humans what I am thinking. I [sometimes] cause the daylight to become dark [like the night]. I [rule over everything]; I [even] walk on the highest mountains on the earth! I am the Commander of the armies of angels!”
