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那日,宫殿里的诗歌要变为哀号[a]
必有许多尸首抛在各处,
安静无声。”
这是主耶和华说的。

以色列的结局

你们这些践踏贫穷人、
使这地困苦人衰败的,
当听这话!
你们说:“初一几时过去,
我们好卖粮;
安息日几时过去,
我们好摆开谷物;
我们要把伊法变小,
把舍客勒变大,
以诡诈的天平欺哄人,

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Footnotes

  1. 8.3 “宫殿里…哀号”:原文另译“宫殿里唱歌的女子要哀号”。

And (A)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
(B)They shall be thrown out in silence.”

Hear this, you who [a]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,

Saying:

“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (C)the Sabbath,
That we may [b]trade wheat?
(D)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (E)deceit,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:4 Or trample on, Amos 2:7
  2. Amos 8:5 Lit. open

(A)The songs of the temple[a] (B)shall become wailings[b] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(C)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(D)“Silence!”

Hear this, (E)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
saying, “When will (F)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And (G)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (H)the ephah small and the shekel[c] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  2. Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail
  3. Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams