阿摩司书

第 4 章

1. 你们住撒玛利亚山如巴珊母牛的阿，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。
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, "Bring us some drinks!"
2. 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。
The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: "The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.
3. 你们各人必从破口直往前行，投入哈门。这是耶和华说的。
You will each go straight out through breaks in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon," declares the LORD.
4. 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。
"Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years.
5. 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。
Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings--boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do," declares the Sovereign LORD.
6. 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。
"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.
7. 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。
"I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.
8. 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。
People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
9. 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。
"Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, I struck them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
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。
"I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
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。
"I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
12. 以色列阿，我必向你如此行。以色列阿，我既这样行，你当预备迎见你的神。
"Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel."
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。
He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, he who turns dawn to darkness, and treads the high places of the earth--the LORD God Almighty is his name.