Amós 5
1 Escuchen la palabra que pronuncio como lamento por ustedes, oh Casa de Israel:
Hear you this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
2 La virgen de Israel cayó para no levantarse. Está tendido y abandonado su cuerpo. No hay quien la levante.
The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.
3 ʼAdonay Yavé dice a la Casa de Israel: La ciudad que salía con 1.000, queda con 100, y la que salía con 100, queda con diez.
Therefore thus says the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, [in it] there shall be left a hundred, and [in that] out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.
4 Yavé dice a la Casa de Israel: Búsquenme y vivirán.
Therefore thus says the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live.
5 No busquen a Bet-ʼEl, ni vayan a Gilgal, ni pasen a Beerseba, porque Gilgal ciertamente irá en cautiverio y Bet-ʼEl será reducida a escombro.
But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.
6 Busquen a Yavé para que vivan, no sea que Él acometa con fuego la casa de José, y nadie esté en Bet-ʼEl para apagarlo.
Seek you the Lord, and you shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.
7 Ustedes los que convierten el juicio en ajenjo y lanzan a tierra la justicia,
[It is he] that executes judgment in the height [above], and he has established justice on the earth:
8 [busquen] al que creó las Pléyades y Orión, que cambia en mañana la oscuridad y oscurece el día como la noche, al que llama a las aguas del mar y las derrama sobre la superficie de la tierra. Yavé es su Nombre,
who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:
9 Quien irrumpe con destrucción repentina caiga contra la fortaleza para que la destruya.
who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.
10 Ellos aborrecen al que amonesta en la puerta y repugnan al que habla rectamente.
They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
11 Por tanto, porque ustedes pisotean al pobre y reciben el tributo de sus granos, aunque edifiquen casas de piedra labrada, no vivirán en ellas. Aunque planten hermosas viñas no beberán su vino.
Therefore because they have struck the poor with their fists, and you have received of them choice gifts; you have built polished houses, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine of them.
12 Yo conozco bien sus numerosas rebeliones y sus grandes pecados: Oprimen al justo, reciben soborno y atropellan a los pobres en la puerta.
For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.
13 Por tanto, el prudente calla en ese tiempo, porque es tiempo peligroso.
Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.
14 ¡Busquen el bien y no el mal, y vivirán. Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes, estará con ustedes, tal como ustedes dicen!
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as you have said,
15 Aborrezcan el mal, amen el bien y afirmen la justicia en la puerta. Tal vez Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes, tenga compasión del remanente de José.
We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore you judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16 ʼAdonay Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes dice: En todas las plazas habrá llanto y en todas las calles dirán: ¡Ay! ¡Ay! Y llamarán al labrador a duelo y a lamentación a los que saben lamentar.
Therefore thus says the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets [shall be] lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
17 En todas las viñas habrá llanto, porque pasaré entre ustedes, dice Yavé.
And [there shall be] lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of you, says the Lord.
18 ¡Ay de los que anhelan el día de Yavé! ¿Para qué desean este día de Yavé? Será de tinieblas y no de luz,
Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.
19 como cuando uno huye del león y choca con un oso. O al entrar en su casa, apoya la mano en la pared y lo muerde una serpiente.
As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
20 ¿No será el día de Yavé oscuridad y no luz? ¿Muy oscuro, sin resplandor?
Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this [day] gloom without brightness?
21 ¡Aborrezco, repugno sus solemnidades! ¡Sus asambleas no me son olor grato!
I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell [your] meat-offerings in your general assemblies.
22 Aunque me ofrezcan holocaustos y ofrendas vegetales, no las aceptaré, ni miraré sus sacrificios de paz con animales engordados.
Therefore if you should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I have respect to your grand peace-offerings.
23 Retiren el bullicio de los cánticos de mi Presencia. No quiero escuchar el sonido de tus arpas.
Remove from me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments.
24 Pero fluya la justicia como las aguas, y la equidad como arroyo perenne.
But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
25 ¿Me ofrecieron sacrificios y ofrendas en el desierto durante 40 años, oh Casa de Israel?
Have you offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
26 Más bien, llevaron a Sicut, su rey, y a Quiún, la estrella de sus ʼelohim que hicieron para ustedes.
Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which you made for yourselves.
27 Por tanto, promoveré que los deporten más allá de Damasco, dice Yavé, cuyo Nombre es ʼElohim de las huestes.
And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, says the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.
