阿摩司書 5
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
勸以色列人悔改
5 以色列家啊，
聽我為你們唱哀歌：
2 「處女以色列跌倒了，
再也站不起來；
她被遺棄在自己的土地上，
無人扶她起來。」
3 因為主耶和華說：
「以色列家的城邑中，
出兵一千的，只有百人生還；
出兵一百的，只有十人生還。」
4 耶和華對以色列家說：
「你們要尋求我，才能存活。
5 不要去伯特利求問，
不要進入吉甲，
也不要前往別示巴，
因為吉甲人必被擄去，
伯特利也必化為烏有。」
6 你們要尋求耶和華，才能存活。
否則，祂要在約瑟家[a]如烈火爆發，
吞噬伯特利，無人能撲滅。
7 你們這些使正義變為苦艾、將公義丟棄在地的人啊，
8 那位造昴星和參星，
使幽暗變為黎明，
使白晝變為黑夜，
召來海水澆在大地上的——
祂的名字是耶和華。
9 祂使毀滅如閃電臨到強者，
摧毀他們的堅城。
10 你們憎恨在城門口主持公道的人，
厭惡正直的人。
11 你們踐踏窮人，
對他們橫徵暴斂。
因此，你們用鑿過的石頭建房，
卻不得居住在裡面；
你們種植佳美的葡萄園，
卻喝不到葡萄酒。
12 我知道你們的過犯眾多、罪惡無數。
你們迫害義人，收受賄賂，
在城門口冤枉窮人。
13 這是邪惡的時代，
所以明智者靜默不言。
14 你們要棄惡從善，才能存活。
這樣，萬軍之上帝耶和華必與你們同在，
正如你們所說的。
15 你們要恨惡邪惡，喜愛良善，
在城門口伸張正義，
也許萬軍之上帝耶和華會恩待約瑟的餘民。
16 因此，主——萬軍之上帝耶和華說：
「哀號之聲要響遍各廣場，
哭喊之聲將充滿大街小巷。
農夫被叫來哭泣，
哭喪者被召來哀號。
17 每個葡萄園都傳出哀慟的聲音，
因為我要從你們中間經過，懲罰你們。
這是耶和華說的。」
18 盼望耶和華的日子到來的人有禍了！
你們為什麼盼望耶和華的日子呢？
那日將帶來黑暗，而非光明。
19 你們的光景將好像人逃避獅子，
卻遇上了熊，
逃回家裡，手扶牆壁，
又被蛇咬。
20 耶和華的日子將充滿黑暗，毫無光明，
一片漆黑，
毫無亮光。
21 「我憎惡、鄙棄你們的節期，
厭惡你們的聖會。
22 即使你們獻上燔祭和素祭，
我也不悅納；
即使你們用肥美的牲畜獻上平安祭，
我也不屑一顧。
23 撤去你們嘈雜的歌聲吧，
我不想聽到你們的琴音。
24 惟願公正如江河滔滔不盡，
公義如溪流綿綿不絕。
25 以色列家啊，
在曠野的四十年間，
你們向我獻過祭物和供品嗎？
26 你們抬著為自己造的神像——
你們的王撒固和星神迦溫。
27 所以，我要使你們被擄到大馬士革以外的地方。」
這是耶和華說的，祂的名字是萬軍之上帝。
Footnotes
- 5·6 「約瑟家」此處指約瑟的子孫以法蓮和瑪拿西兩個支派，聖經中有時用約瑟家代指北國以色列。
Amos 5
Jubilee Bible 2000
5 ¶ Hear ye this word, because I raise up a lamentation upon you, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall not be able to rise again: she was forsaken upon her land; there is no one to raise her up.
3 For thus hath the Lord GOD said: The city that sent out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which sent forth a hundred shall have ten, in the house of Israel.
4 ¶ But thus hath the LORD said unto the house of Israel, Seek me, and ye shall live:
5 but do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off doing righteousness in the earth,
8 look unto him that makes the seven stars and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name;
9 that strengthens the spoiler against the strong, so that the spoiler shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch 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.
12 For I have known of your many rebellions and your great sins that afflict the just and take a ransom and turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time.
14 Seek that which is good, and not that which is evil that ye may live; and so the LORD, the God of the hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15 Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of the hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 ¶ Therefore the LORD, the God of the hosts, the Lord, said this: 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.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, said the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD shall be darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man fled 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.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 ¶ I hate, I despise your solemnities, and I will not savour your assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me your burnt offerings and your presents, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy instruments.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Did you perchance offer me any sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness in forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have offered unto Sicut your king, and unto Chiun your idols, the star of your gods which ye made.
27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, said the LORD, whose name is The God of the hosts.
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