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以色列虐遇贫乏必受主惩

你们住撒马利亚山如巴珊母牛的啊,当听我的话!你们欺负贫寒的,压碎穷乏的,对家主说:“拿酒来,我们喝吧!” 主耶和华指着自己的圣洁起誓说:“日子快到,人必用钩子将你们钩去,用鱼钩将你们余剩的钩去。 你们各人必从破口直往前行,投入哈门。”这是耶和华说的。

因献祭非正报以饥馑

以色列人哪,任你们往伯特利去犯罪,到吉甲加增罪过,每日早晨献上你们的祭物,每三日奉上你们的十分之一。 任你们献有酵的感谢祭,把甘心祭宣传报告给众人,因为是你们所喜爱的。”这是主耶和华说的。

虽受重罚仍不归诚

“我使你们在一切城中牙齿干净,在你们各处粮食缺乏,你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华说的。 “在收割的前三月,我使雨停止,不降在你们那里。我降雨在这城,不降雨在那城。这块地有雨,那块地无雨,无雨的就枯干了。 这样,两三城的人凑到一城去找水,却喝不足,你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华说的。 “我以旱风、霉烂攻击你们,你们园中许多菜蔬,葡萄树、无花果树、橄榄树,都被剪虫所吃,你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华说的。 10 “我降瘟疫在你们中间,像在埃及一样。用刀杀戮你们的少年人,使你们的马匹被掳掠,营中尸首的臭气扑鼻,你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华说的。 11 “我倾覆你们中间的城邑,如同我从前倾覆所多玛蛾摩拉一样,使你们好像从火中抽出来的一根柴,你们仍不归向我。”这是耶和华说的。

12 以色列啊,我必向你如此行。以色列啊,我既这样行,你当预备迎见你的神。” 13 那创山造风,将心意指示人,使晨光变为幽暗,脚踏在地之高处的,他的名是耶和华万军之神!

Israel Has Not Returned to God

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan(A) on Mount Samaria,(B)
    you women who oppress the poor(C) and crush the needy(D)
    and say to your husbands,(E) “Bring us some drinks!(F)
The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(G) will surely come
when you will be taken away(H) with hooks,(I)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]
You will each go straight out
    through breaches in the wall,(J)
    and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[b]
declares the Lord.
“Go to Bethel(K) and sin;
    go to Gilgal(L) and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,(M)
    your tithes(N) every three years.[c](O)
Burn leavened bread(P) as a thank offering
    and brag about your freewill offerings(Q)
boast about them, you Israelites,
    for this is what you love to do,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.

“I gave you empty stomachs in every city
    and lack of bread in every town,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.(R)

“I also withheld(S) rain from you
    when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
    but withheld it from another.(T)
One field had rain;
    another had none and dried up.
People staggered from town to town for water(U)
    but did not get enough(V) to drink,
    yet you have not returned(W) to me,”
declares the Lord.(X)

“Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
    destroying them with blight and mildew.(Y)
Locusts(Z) devoured your fig and olive trees,(AA)
    yet you have not returned(AB) to me,”
declares the Lord.

10 “I sent plagues(AC) among you
    as I did to Egypt.(AD)
I killed your young men(AE) with the sword,
    along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench(AF) of your camps,
    yet you have not returned to me,”(AG)
declares the Lord.(AH)

11 “I overthrew some of you
    as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.(AI)
You were like a burning stick(AJ) snatched from the fire,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.(AK)

12 “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,
    and because I will do this to you, Israel,
    prepare to meet your God.”

13 He who forms the mountains,(AL)
    who creates the wind,(AM)
    and who reveals his thoughts(AN) to mankind,
who turns dawn to darkness,
    and treads on the heights of the earth(AO)
    the Lord God Almighty is his name.(AP)

Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets
  2. Amos 4:3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression
  3. Amos 4:4 Or days

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.

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