| 亞毛斯 |
Amos |
| 1吾主上主叫我看見這事：割完君王的青草，當晚草初生時，看，蝗蟲出現了。 |
1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was forming a locust swarm when the late growth began to come up (the late growth after the king's mowing). |
| 2當蝗蟲要吃光地上的青草時，我就說：「吾主上主，求你饒恕罷！雅各伯還怎能存在？他已這樣弱小！」 |
2While they were eating all the grass in the land, I said: Forgive, O Lord GOD! How can Jacob stand? He is so small! |
| 3上主對這事後悔了。上主說：「這事不會發生。」 |
3And the LORD repented of this. "It shall not be," said the Lord GOD. |
| 4吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，吾主上主召來懲罰的火，燒毀了廣大的深淵，又燒毀了上主的基業。 |
4 Then the Lord GOD showed me this: he called for a judgment by fire. It had devoured the great abyss, and was consuming the land, |
| 5我就說：「吾主上主！求你罷休！雅各伯還怎能存在？他已這樣弱小！」 |
5when I said: Cease, O Lord GOD! How can Jacob stand? He is so small! |
| 6上主對這事後悔了。吾主上主說：「這事也不會發生。」 |
6The LORD repented of this. "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD. |
| 7吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，有一人立在牆上，手中拿着一條鉛垂線。 |
7 Then the Lord GOD showed me this: he was standing by a wall, plummet in hand. |
| 8上主對我說：「亞毛斯，你看見了什麼？」我答說：「一條鉛垂線。」吾主說：「看，我將鉛垂線安置在我民族以色列當中，我不再放過她。 |
8The LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" And when I answered, "A plummet," the Lord said: See, I will lay the plummet in the midst of my people Israel; I will forgive them no longer. |
| 9依撒格的高丘必要荒蕪，以色列的聖所必要廢棄；我必起來用刀攻擊雅洛貝罕家。」 |
9The high places of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the sanctuaries of Israel made desolate; I will attack the house of Jeroboam with the sword. |
| 10那時，貝特耳的司祭阿瑪責雅派人向以色列王雅洛貝罕說：「亞毛斯在以色列家中圖謀背叛你，國家不能再容受他的一切言論， |
10Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: "Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words. |
| 11因為亞毛斯這樣說：雅洛貝罕必死於刀下，以色列必被擄去充軍，遠離本土。」 |
11For this is what Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be exiled from its land." |
| 12事後，阿瑪責雅又向亞毛斯說：「先見者，你走罷！趕快到猶大國去，在那裏餬口，在那裏講預言。 |
12To Amos, Amaziah said: "Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, |
| 13在貝特耳不可再講預言，因為這裏是君王的聖所，王國的殿宇。」 |
13but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal temple." |
| 14亞毛斯回答阿瑪責雅說：「我原不是先知，也不是先知的弟子，只是一個放羊兼修剪野無花果的人。 |
14 Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. |
| 15但是，上主正在我趕羊時提了我來。上主對我說：你去向我的百姓以色列講預言罷！ |
15The LORD took me from following the flock, and said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. |
| 16現今，你且聽上主說什麼。你說：不要講預言攻擊以色列，不要發言反對依撒格家！ |
16Now hear the word of the LORD!" You say: prophesy not against Israel, preach not against the house of Isaac. |
| 17為此，上主這樣說：你的妻子必在城中賣淫，你的子女必喪身刀下，你的田地必被人以繩墨瓜分，你自己必死在不潔之地，以色列必被擄去充軍，遠離本土。」 |
17Now thus says the LORD: Your wife shall be made a harlot in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by measuring line, and you yourself shall die in an unclean land; Israel shall be exiled far from its land. |
