因此,主耶和華憑祂的聖潔起誓:
「時候快到了,
有人要用魚鉤鉤走你們,一個也不留。
你們都要從城牆缺口走出來,
被丟到哈門。
這是耶和華說的。

「以色列人啊,
你們去伯特利犯罪吧,
去吉甲增添罪惡吧!
要每天早晨獻上祭物,
每三天奉上你們的十分之一。

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The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(A) will surely come
when you will be taken away(B) with hooks,(C)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]
You will each go straight out
    through breaches in the wall,(D)
    and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[b]
declares the Lord.
“Go to Bethel(E) and sin;
    go to Gilgal(F) and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,(G)
    your tithes(H) every three years.[c](I)

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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