Амос 5

Библия, синодално издание

5 Слушайте това слово, с което ще дигна плач за вас, доме Израилев.

²Падна, няма вече да стане девицата Израилева! Свалена е на своята земя, и няма кой да я дигне.

³Защото тъй казва Господ Бог: град, който изваждаше хиляда, ще остане само със сто, а който изваждаше сто, ще остане с десет в дома Израилев.

⁴^(A)Защото тъй казва Господ на дома Израилев: потърсете Ме – и ще бъдете живи.

⁵^(B)Не търсете Ветил, не ходете в Галгал и за Вирсавия не пътувайте, защото цял Галгал ще отиде в плен, и Ветил ще се обърне на нищо.

⁶^(C)Потърсете Господа – и ще бъдете живи, за да се не устреми Той срещу дома Иосифов като огън, който ще го погълне, и не ще има кой да го изгаси във Ветил.

⁷О, вие, които превръщате правосъдието в отрова и правдата хвърляте наземи!

⁸^(D)Кой е сътворил седмозвездието и Орион и превръща смъртната сянка в ясно утро, а деня прави тъмен като нощ, извиква морските води и ги разлива по лицето на земята? Господ е името Му!

⁹Той подкрепя опустошителя против силния, и опустошителят влиза в крепостта.

¹⁰^(E)А те мразят оногова, който изобличава при портите, и се гнусят от оногова, който говори правда.

¹¹^(F)И тъй, задето тъпчите сиромаха и вземате от него подаръци жито, вие ще построите домове от дялан камък, ала няма да живеете в тях; ще насадите хубави лозя, ала вино от тях няма да пиете.

¹²^(G)Защото Аз зная, колко многобройни са вашите престъпления, и колко тежки са вашите грехове; вие сте врагове на правия, вземате подкуп и изопачавате в съда делата на сиромасите.

¹³^(H)Поради това разумният е безмълвен в това време, защото времето е лошо.

¹⁴^(I)Търсете доброто, а не злото, за да останете живи – и тогава Господ Бог Саваот ще бъде с вас, както вие казвате.

¹⁵^(J)Намразете злото, обикнете доброто и възстановете правосъдие при портите; може би, Господ Бог Саваот ще помилува остатъка Иосифов.

¹⁶^(K)Затова тъй казва Господ Бог Саваот, Вседържител: по всички улици ще има плач, и по всички пътища ще викат: уви, уви! И ще повикат земеделеца да жалее и изкусните в плачевни песни – да плачат,

¹⁷и по всички лозя ще има плач, защото Аз ще премина посред тебе, казва Господ.

¹⁸^(L)Горко на ония, които желаят деня Господен! Защо ви е тоя ден Господен? Той е тъма, а не светлина, –

¹⁹^(M)също, както ако някой побегнеше от лъв – и го срешнеше мечка, или ако дойдеше вкъщи и се опреше с ръка о стената – и го ухапеше змия.

²⁰^(N)Нима денят Господен не е мрак, а светлина? Той е тъма, и няма в него блясък.

²¹^(O)Мразя, отхвърлям празниците ви и не помирисвам жертвите ви през време на тържествените ви събрания.

²²^(P)Ако Ми принесете всесъжения и хлебен принос, няма да ги приема и няма да погледна милостиво на благодарствената жертва от тлъстите ви телци.

²³^(Q)Отстрани от Мене шума на твоите песни, защото звуците на твоите гусли няма да слушам.

²⁴^(R)Нека тече като вода правосъдието, и правдата, като силен поток!

²⁵^(S)Принасяхте ли Ми жертви и хлебни дарове в пустинята през четирийсет години, доме Израилев?

²⁶^(T)Вие носихте скинията Молохова и звездата на вашия бог Ремфан – образи, които направихте за себе си.

²⁷Затова Аз ще ви преселя зад Дамаск, казва Господ; Бог Саваот е името Му.

Amos 5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Lamentation for Israel

5 Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,^(A) house of Israel:

²She has fallen;
Virgin Israel^(B) will never rise again.^(C)
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.^(D)

³For the Lord God says:

The city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left,^(E)
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left^(F) in the house of Israel.

Seek God and Live

⁴For the Lord says to the house of Israel:

Seek Me and live!^(G)
⁵Do not seek Bethel^(H)
or go to Gilgal^(I)
or journey to Beer-sheba,^(J)
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.
⁶Seek Yahweh^(K) and live,
or He will spread like fire^(L)
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.^(M)
⁷Those who turn justice into wormwood^(N)
throw righteousness to the ground.

⁸The One who made the Pleiades and Orion,^(O)
who turns darkness^[a] into dawn^(P)
and darkens day into night,^(Q)
who summons the waters of the sea^(R)
and pours them out over the face of the earth^(S)—
Yahweh is His name.^(T)
⁹He brings destruction^[b] on the strong,^[c]^(U)
and it falls on the stronghold.^(V)

¹⁰They hate the one who convicts the guilty^(W)
at the city gate
and despise^(X) the one who speaks with integrity.
¹¹Therefore, because you trample on the poor^(Y)
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone^(Z)
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.^(AA)
¹²For I know your crimes are many
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,^(AB) take a bribe,
and deprive the poor of justice^(AC) at the gates.
¹³Therefore, the wise person will keep silent^[d]^(AD)
at such a time,
for the days are evil.

¹⁴Seek good and not evil
so that you may live,
and the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you,
as you have claimed.^(AE)
¹⁵Hate evil and love good;^(AF)
establish justice in the gate.^(AG)
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious^(AH)
to the remnant of Joseph.^(AI)

¹⁶Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:

There will be wailing in all the public squares;^(AJ)
they will cry out in anguish^[e] in all the streets.
The farmer will be called on to mourn,^(AK)
and professional mourners^[f]^(AL) to wail.
¹⁷There will be wailing in all the vineyards,^(AM)
for I will pass among you.^(AN)
The Lord has spoken.

The Day of the Lord

¹⁸Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord!^(AO)
What will the Day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.^(AP)
¹⁹It will be like a man who flees from a lion^(AQ)
only to have a bear confront him.
He goes home and rests his hand against the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
²⁰Won’t the Day of the Lord
be darkness rather than light,^(AR)
even gloom without any brightness in it?^(AS)
²¹I hate, I despise your feasts!^(AT)
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.^(AU)
²²Even if you offer Me
your burnt offerings and grain offerings,^(AV)
I will not accept them;^(AW)
I will have no regard
for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.^(AX)
²³Take away from Me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.^(AY)
²⁴But let justice flow like water,
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.^(AZ)

²⁵“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?^(BA) ²⁶But you have taken up^[g] Sakkuth^[h]^[i] your king^[j] and Kaiwan^[k] your star god, images you have made for yourselves.^(BB) ²⁷So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.”^(BC) Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.^(BD) He has spoken.

Footnotes

Amos 5:8 Or turns the shadow of death
Amos 5:9 Hb obscure
Amos 5:9 Or stronghold
Amos 5:13 Or the prudent will perish
Amos 5:16 Lit will say, “Alas! Alas!”
Amos 5:16 Lit and those skilled in lamentation
Amos 5:26 Or you will lift up
Amos 5:26 LXX, Sym, Syr, Vg read the tent; Ac 7:43
Amos 5:26 Probably a Mesopotamian war god also called Adar or Ninurta
Amos 5:26 LXX reads up the tent of Molech and Rephan; Ac 7:43
Amos 5:26 Probably a Mesopotamian god identified with Saturn

Amos 5

New International Version

A Lament and Call to Repentance

5 Hear this word, Israel, this lament^(A) I take up concerning you:

²“Fallen is Virgin^(B) Israel,
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.^(C)”

³This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel:

“Your city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.^(D)”

⁴This is what the Lord says to Israel:

“Seek^(E) me and live;^(F)
⁵    do not seek Bethel,
do not go to Gilgal,^(G)
    do not journey to Beersheba.^(H)
For Gilgal will surely go into exile,
    and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.^[a]^(I)”
⁶Seek^(J) the Lord and live,^(K)
    or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;^(L)
it will devour them,
    and Bethel^(M) will have no one to quench it.^(N)

⁷There are those who turn justice into bitterness^(O)
and cast righteousness^(P) to the ground.^(Q)

⁸He who made the Pleiades and Orion,^(R)
    who turns midnight into dawn^(S)
    and darkens day into night,^(T)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.^(U)
⁹With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold
    and brings the fortified city to ruin.^(V)

¹⁰There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court^(W)
and detest the one who tells the truth.^(X)

¹¹You levy a straw tax on the poor^(Y)
    and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,^(Z)
    you will not live in them;^(AA)
though you have planted lush vineyards,
    you will not drink their wine.^(AB)
¹²For I know how many are your offenses
    and how great your sins.^(AC)

There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes^(AD)
and deprive the poor^(AE) of justice in the courts.^(AF)
¹³Therefore the prudent keep quiet^(AG) in such times,
for the times are evil.^(AH)

¹⁴Seek good, not evil,
    that you may live.^(AI)
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
    just as you say he is.
¹⁵Hate evil,^(AJ) love good;^(AK)
    maintain justice in the courts.^(AL)
Perhaps^(AM) the Lord God Almighty will have mercy^(AN)
    on the remnant^(AO) of Joseph.

¹⁶Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says:

“There will be wailing^(AP) in all the streets^(AQ)
    and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers^(AR) will be summoned to weep
    and the mourners to wail.
¹⁷There will be wailing^(AS) in all the vineyards,
    for I will pass through^(AT) your midst,”
says the Lord.^(AU)

The Day of the Lord

¹⁸Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!^(AV)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?^(AW)
    That day will be darkness,^(AX) not light.^(AY)
¹⁹It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,^(AZ)
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.^(BA)
²⁰Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,^(BB) not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?^(BC)

²¹“I hate,^(BD) I despise your religious festivals;^(BE)
    your assemblies^(BF) are a stench to me.
²²Even though you bring me burnt offerings^(BG) and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.^(BH)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.^(BI)
²³Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.^(BJ)
²⁴But let justice^(BK) roll on like a river,
    righteousness^(BL) like a never-failing stream!^(BM)

²⁵“Did you bring me sacrifices^(BN) and offerings
    forty years^(BO) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
²⁶You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
    the pedestal of your idols,^(BP)
    the star of your god^[b]—
    which you made for yourselves.
²⁷Therefore I will send you into exile^(BQ) beyond Damascus,”
    says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.^(BR)

Footnotes

Amos 5:5 Hebrew aven, a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see Hosea 4:15.
Amos 5:26 Or lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods; Septuagint lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols

Amos 5

King James Version

5 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

²The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

³For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

⁴For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

⁵But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

⁶Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

⁷Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

⁸Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

⁹That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

¹⁰They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

¹¹Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

¹²For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

¹³Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

¹⁴Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

¹⁵Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

¹⁷And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

¹⁸Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

¹⁹As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

²⁰Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

²¹I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

²²Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

²³Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

²⁴But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

²⁵Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

²⁶But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

²⁷Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

Amos 5

New King James Version

A Lament for Israel

5 Hear this word which I ^(A)take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:

²The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.

³For thus says the Lord God:

“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

A Call to Repentance

⁴For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

^(B)“Seek Me ^(C)and live;
⁵But do not seek ^(D)Bethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to ^(E)Beersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And ^(F)Bethel shall come to nothing.
⁶^(G)Seek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
⁷You who ^(H)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

⁸He made the ^(I)Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
^(J)And makes the day dark as night;
He ^(K)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
^(L)The Lord is His name.
⁹He ^[a]rains ruin upon the strong,
So that fury comes upon the fortress.

¹⁰^(M)They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
And they ^(N)abhor the one who speaks uprightly.
¹¹^(O)Therefore, because you ^[b]tread down the poor
And take grain ^[c]taxes from him,
Though ^(P)you have built houses of hewn stone,
Yet you shall not dwell in them;
You have planted ^[d]pleasant vineyards,
But you shall not drink wine from them.
¹²For I ^(Q)know your manifold transgressions
And your mighty sins:
^(R)Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
^(S)Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
¹³Therefore ^(T)the prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.

¹⁴Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
^(U)As you have spoken.
¹⁵^(V)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
^(W)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

The Day of the Lord

¹⁶Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:

“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
^(X)And skillful lamenters to wailing.
¹⁷In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
For ^(Y)I will pass through you,”
Says the Lord.

¹⁸^(Z)Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is ^(AA)the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
¹⁹It will be ^(AB)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
²⁰Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?

²¹“I^(AC) hate, I despise your feast days,
And ^(AD)I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
²²^(AE)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
²³Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
²⁴^(AF)But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.

²⁵“Did^(AG) you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
²⁶You also carried ^[e]Sikkuth^[f] ^(AH)your king
And Chiun, your idols,
The star of your gods,
Which you made for yourselves.
²⁷Therefore I will send you into captivity ^(AI)beyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, ^(AJ)whose name is the God of hosts.

Footnotes

Amos 5:9 Or flashes forth destruction
Amos 5:11 trample
Amos 5:11 Or tribute
Amos 5:11 desirable
Amos 5:26 LXX, Vg. tabernacle of Moloch
Amos 5:26 A pagan deity

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