阿摩司書 4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
4 住在撒瑪利亞山上的巴珊肥母牛啊，
你們要聽！
你們壓榨貧寒人，欺凌窮苦人，
又使喚丈夫倒酒暢飲。
2 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。
3 你們都要從城牆缺口走出來，
被丟到哈門。
這是耶和華說的。
4 「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。
5 你們獻上帶酵的餅作感恩祭，
並且到處誇耀你們自願獻的祭。
以色列人啊，這就是你們愛做的事。
這是主耶和華說的。
6 「我在各城降下饑荒，
使你們遍地缺糧。
儘管如此，你們仍不歸向我。
這是耶和華說的。
7 「我在收割前三個月停止降雨。
我在一座城降雨，
在另一座城不降雨；
我使一塊田有雨水的滋潤，
另一塊田因無雨而乾裂。
8 兩三座城的人都踉踉蹌蹌地湧到一座城找水喝，
水卻不夠喝。
儘管如此，你們仍不歸向我。
這是耶和華說的。
9 「我用熱風和黴災擊打你們，
叫蝗蟲吞噬你們田園中的菜蔬、葡萄樹、無花果樹和橄欖樹。
儘管如此，你們仍不歸向我。
這是耶和華說的。
10 「我在你們中間降下瘟疫，
如從前降在埃及一樣。
我殺戮你們的青年，
擄掠你們的戰馬，
使你們軍營中的死屍臭味撲鼻。
儘管如此，你們仍不歸向我。
這是耶和華說的。
11 「我在你們中間施行毀滅，
如從前毀滅所多瑪和蛾摩拉一樣，
使你們像從火裡抽出的一根柴。
儘管如此，你們仍不歸向我。
這是耶和華說的。
12 「以色列人啊，
我要這樣懲罰你們。
以色列人啊，
準備迎見你們的上帝吧！
因為我要這樣懲罰你們。」
13 看啊，那位造山又造風，
向人顯明祂的心意，
將黎明變為黑暗，
將群山踩在腳下的——
祂的名字是萬軍之上帝耶和華。
Amos 4
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Against the governors of Samaria.
1 Hear this word, ye [a]kine of Bashan that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, and destroy the needy, and they say to their masters, [b]Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with [c]thorns, and your posterity with fish-hooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches every cow forward: and ye shall cast yourselves out of the palace, saith the Lord.
4 Come to [d]Bethel, and transgress: to Gilgal, and multiply transgression, and bring your sacrifices in the morning, and your riches after three [e]years.
5 And offer a thanksgiving [f]of leaven, publish and proclaim the free offerings: for this [g]liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6 And therefore have I given you [h]cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and scarceness of bread in all your places, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three [i]months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city, and have not caused it to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not, withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, but they were [j]not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: your great gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees did the palmerworm devour: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 Pestilence have I sent among you after the manner of [k]Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses: and I have made the stink of your tents to come up even into your nostrils, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
11 I have overthrown you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: and ye were as a [l]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 thus unto thee, prepare to [m]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: which maketh the morning darkness, and walketh upon the high places of the earth, the Lord God of hosts is his Name.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:1 Thus he calleth the princes and governors, which being overwhelmed with the great abundance of God’s benefits, forgot God, and therefore he calleth them by the name of beasts and not of men.
- Amos 4:1 They encourage such as have authority over the people to powle them, so that they may have profit by it.
- Amos 4:2 He alludeth to fishers, which catch fish by hooks and thorns.
- Amos 4:4 He speaketh this in contempt of them which resorted to those places, thinking that their great devotion and good intention had been sufficient to have bound God unto them.
- Amos 4:4 Read Deut. 14:28.
- Amos 4:5 As Lev. 7:13.
- Amos 4:5 You only delight in these outward ceremonies and have none other respect.
- Amos 4:6 That is, lack of bread and meat.
- Amos 4:7 I stayed the rain till the fruits of the earth were destroyed with drought, and yet you would not consider it to return to me by repentance.
- Amos 4:8 They could not find water enough where they had heard say it had rained.
- Amos 4:10 As I plagued the Egyptians, Exod. 9:10.
- Amos 4:11 You were almost all consumed, and a few of you wonderfully preserved, 2 Kings 14:26.
- Amos 4:12 Turn to him by repentance.
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