Amós 6
1 ¡Ay de los que viven tranquilos en Sion, de los que confían en la montaña de Samaria y los notables y principales entre las naciones, a quienes la Casa de Israel acude!
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 Pasen a Calne y observen. Desde allí vayan a la gran Hamat, luego bajen a Gat de los filisteos. ¿Son ellos mejores que estos reinos? ¿O es su territorio mayor que el de ustedes?
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 ¿Alejan el día de la calamidad y acercan la silla de la violencia?
You are trying to not think about a day when you will experience disasters, when [your enemies will come and] violently attack you.
4 Duermen en camas de marfil, reposan sobre sus camas y comen los corderos del rebaño y los becerros del establo.
You lie on beds [decorated with expensive] ivory, and on [soft] couches. You eat [the tender meat of] lambs and fat calves.
5 Improvisan el sonido del arpa y componen salmos para ellos mismos como David.
You create/compose new songs and play them on your harps like [King] David did.
6 Beben vino en grandes copas, se ungen con los mejores ungüentos y no se afligen por la ruina de José.
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 Por tanto, ahora serán llevados a la cabeza de los cautivos, y cesará el banquete de los que se reclinan.
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 ʼAdonay Yavé juró por sí mismo. Yavé ʼElohim de las huestes dijo: Repugno el orgullo de Jacob y aborrezco sus palacios. Entregaré la ciudad al enemigo y todo cuanto hay en ella.
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 Acontecerá que si quedan diez hombres en una casa, morirán.
[When that happens, ] if there are ten people in one house, they will all die.
10 Un pariente quemará a cada uno para sacar los huesos de la casa. Dirá al que está en algún rincón de ella: ¿Queda alguno contigo? Y responderá: Ninguno. Y dirá: ¡Silencio! Porque no podemos mencionar el Nombre de Yavé.
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 Porque ciertamente Yavé ordena que la mansión sea destrozada y la casa reducida a fragmentos.
[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 ¿Galopan los caballos sobre las peñas? ¿Se ara con bueyes en el mar? Pero ustedes convierten el juicio en veneno y el fruto de la justicia en ajenjo.
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 Ustedes, los que se alegran con nada, y dicen: ¿No adquirimos poder con nuestra fuerza?
You are proud because you have captured Lo-Debar [town], and you have said, “We captured Karnaim by our own power!”
14 Pues mira, oh Casa de Israel. Yo levanto contra ustedes una nación que los oprimirá desde la entrada de Hamat hasta el torrente del Arabá, dice Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes.
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].”
