 亞:1.(am)   [亞毛斯]    Amos   [共9章]  [思高聖經]
  
 亞:1.1      [題名]  亞毛斯的言論：亞毛斯原是特科亞的一個牧人，在猶大王烏齊亞時代和以色列王耶曷阿士的兒子雅洛貝罕時代，地震前二年，見了關於以色列的神視。
 亞:1.2      [懲罰阿蘭]  他說：「上主由熙雍一怒吼，從耶路撒冷一出聲，牧場即淒涼，加爾默耳山頂即乾枯。」
 亞:1.3      上主這樣說：「為了大馬士革再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因為他們用鐵棍壓榨了基肋阿得。
 亞:1.4      我必把火投於阿匝耳家，燒毀本哈達得的王宮。
 亞:1.5      我必打斷大馬士革的門閂，消滅彼卡特阿文的居民和貝特厄登的掌權者；阿蘭人民必被擄往克爾──上主說。
 亞:1.6      [懲罰培肋舍特]  上主這樣說：「為了迦薩再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因為他們將戰俘全部擄去，賣給厄東。
 亞:1.7      我必把火投在迦薩城牆上，燒盡她的王宮。
 亞:1.8      我必消滅阿市多得的固民和阿市刻隆的掌權者，伸手打攻擊厄刻龍，培肋舍特的殘餘必要滅亡」──吾主上主說。
 亞:1.9      [懲罰提洛]  上主這樣說：「為了提洛再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因他們將戰俘全都賣給了厄東，毫不念兄弟的盟約。
 亞:1.10     我必把火投在提洛的城牆上，燒盡她的王宮。」
 亞:1.11     [懲罰厄東]  上主這樣說：「為了厄東再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因為他們持刀追擊自己的兄弟，毫無憐憫，常存怒氣，永懷憤怒。
 亞:1.12     我必把火投於特曼，燒盡波責辣的王宮。」
 亞:1.13     [懲罰阿孟]  上主這樣說：「為了阿孟子民再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因為他們剖開基肋阿得的孕婦，為擴展的疆土。
 亞:1.14     在作戰之日的吶喊中，在風雨的狂暴中，我必在辣巴的城牆上放火，燒盡她的王宮。
 亞:1.15     他們的君王和君王的官吏必一起被擄去」──上主說。
  
 亞:2.1      [懲罰摩阿布]  上主這樣說：「為了摩阿布再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因為他們曾將厄東的骨骸焚化成灰。
 亞:2.2      我必將火投於摩阿布，燒盡克黎約特的王宮；摩阿布必在騷嚷、吶喊和號角聲中滅亡。
 亞:2.3      我必由其中消滅民長，將她的一切長官同她一起殺死」──上主說。
 亞:2.4      [懲罰猶大]  上主這樣說：「為了猶大再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因為他們離背了上主的法律，沒有遵守祂的誡命；他們祖先所追隨的邪神，使他們走入了岐途。
 亞:2.5      我必把火投於，燒盡耶路撒冷的王官」
 亞:2.6      [懲罰以色列]  上主這樣說：「為了以色列再三再四犯罪，我不收回成命，因為他們為了銀錢出賣人；為一雙鞋，出賣無辜的人。
 亞:2.7      他們把窮人的頭踏在塵土裏，侵奪卑微人的權利；兒子與父親走近同一少女，以致褻瀆我的聖名；
 亞:2.8      他們靠近每個祭壇，躺在抵押者的衣服上，在他們的神廟內喝剝削來的酒。
 亞:2.9      是我由你們面前消滅了阿摩黎人，他們雖高大似香柏，堅固如橡樹，但我仍從樹上摘去了果實，由樹下拔出了根子。
 亞:2.10     是我由埃及國領你們上來，四十年之久引你們經過曠野，使你們佔領了阿摩黎人的國土。
 亞:2.11     是我從你們的子孫中立了一些人為先知，由你們少年中選拔了一些人作獻身者。以色列子民，是不是這樣呢﹖──上主的斷語。
 亞:2.12     但是，你們竟叫獻身者喝酒，又吩咐先知說：「別傳神言!」
 亞:2.13     看，我要使你們腳下的地搖蕩，好像車搖蕩一樣，
 亞:2.14     以致疾行者無法逃遁，強有力者無法施展，武士救不了自己，
 亞:2.15     弓手不能屹立，捷足者不能逃脫，騎馬者不能自救。
 亞:2.16     在那一天，武士中最勇敢的，也僅能赤身逃走」──上主的斷語。
  
 亞:3.1      [選民的責任與先知的使命]  以色列子民!你們應聽從上主關於你們，即由埃及領出來的全體民族所說的話：「
 亞:3.2      由世界上一切種族中，我只選擇了你們，為此，我必懲罰你們的罪惡。
 亞:3.3      二人除非預約，豈能同行。
 亞:3.4      獅子若無獵物，豈能在林中咆哮﹖幼獅除非捕到食物，豈能在洞中吼叫﹖
 亞:3.5      雀鳥若無餌食，豈能落在地上﹖機楹若無所獲，豈能由地上翻起﹖
 亞:3.6      如在城中吹起號角，人民豈不恐怖﹖如城裏發生災禍，豈不是上主所為﹖
 亞:3.7      的確，上主若不先將自己的計劃啟示給自己的先知，什麼也不作。
 亞:3.8      獅子咆哮了，誰不害怕﹖吾主上主發了言，誰能不傳他的話﹖」
 亞:3.9      [撒瑪黎雅的結局]  「你們要在亞述和埃及的宮殿高處宣布說：你們應聚集在撒馬黎雅山上，觀看那裏的混亂和其中的殘暴。
 亞:3.10     他們不知行正直的事──上主的斷語──只知在宮殿內積累強暴和欺壓。
 亞:3.11     為此，吾主上主這樣說：「敵人要圍困此地，推翻你的堡壘，搶掠你的宮殿。
 亞:3.12     上主這樣說：牧人怎樣從樣由獅子口中搶救出兩條羊腿，或一塊羊耳，以色列子民，即在撒馬利亞斜倚在安樂椅角上，或大馬士革榻上的人，也要怎樣被救出。
 亞:3.13     你們靜聽，並對雅各伯家作証──吾主上主萬軍的天主的斷語──
 亞:3.14     在我懲罰以色列罪惡之日，我必毀壞貝特耳的祭壇，祭壇的角必被打落在地上。
 亞:3.15     我要破壞過冬和過夏的別墅，象牙宮也必遭毀壞，高樓大廈也必蕩然無存」──上主的斷語。
  
 亞:4.1      [禍哉撒瑪黎雅婦女]  你們這些欺壓弱小，虐待窮人，且對自己丈夫說：「拿酒來，我們暢飲」的撒馬黎雅山上巴商母牛，聽聽這話吧!
 亞:4.2      吾主上主指著的神聖起誓說：「看，對付你們的日子快到，人必用鉤子把你們鉤去；直到你們最後一個也必被人用魚鉤鉤去。
 亞:4.3      你們一個一個地經過城牆的裂口，被押到赫爾孟去」──上主的斷語。
 亞:4.4      [以色列因非法敬禮而受罰]  「你們去貝特耳犯罪吧!去基耳加耳罪上加罪吧!每晨奉獻你們的犧牲，每三天奉獻你們的什一之物，
 亞:4.5      焚燒有酵供物當作感恩祭，高聲宣揚你們自願獻的祭獻!以色列子民，你們原喜歡這樣──吾主上主的斷語──
 亞:4.6      雖然我使你們一切城市饑荒，到處缺糧，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──
 亞:4.7      收割前三個月，我就不給你們降雨，或者在這城下雨，在另一城卻不降雨；這塊地得了雨，而另一塊地沒有得雨，因而枯乾了；
 亞:4.8      兩三座城的人踉踉蹌蹌走到另一城去喝水，卻不能喝足；雖然如此，你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──
 亞:4.9      我使熱風和霉爛襲擊你們，使你們的田園和葡萄園乾旱；蝗蟲又吃光了你們的無花果檥和橄欖樹，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──
 亞:4.10     我在你們中間下了瘟疫，如在埃及一樣，用刀劍殺了你們的精兵，令人擄掠你們的戰馬，使你們營中腥臭撲鼻，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語─
 亞:4.11     我傾覆了你們，像天主傾覆了索多瑪和哈摩辣，你們好似由火中抽出來的木柴，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──
 亞:4.12     為此，以色列!我必要這樣對待你。以色列!因我要這樣對待你，你準備迎接你的天主吧!
 亞:4.13     看，是祂形成了山嶽，創造了風暴，向人宣示祂的旨意，造成黎明和黑暗，在大地高處巡行，祂的名字叫「雅威，」萬軍的天主。
  
 亞:5.1      [哀弔以色列]  以色列家!你們應聽這話，應聽我為你們唱的這首哀歌!
 亞:5.2      「以色列處女已跌倒，不能再起；摔在地上，無人攙扶。
 亞:5.3      因為吾主上主這樣論以色列家說：出一千兵的城只生還一百；出一百的，只生還十個。尋求上主者生，作惡者亡。
 亞:5.4      因為上主這樣對以色列家說：你們尋求我，才可生存。
 亞:5.5      不可往基耳加耳，不不去巴爾估巴，因為基耳加耳必被擄掠，貝特耳必化為烏有。
 亞:5.6      你們尋求上主，才可生存，免得祂如火衝入若瑟家中，燒毀一切，無人能為以色列家撲滅。
 亞:5.7      是祂創造了昴星和參星，變昏黑為黎明，使白畫為黑夜，召海水傾流於地面，祂名叫「雅威。」
 亞:5.8      祂使滅亡閃擊強者，使毀滅臨於城堡。
 亞:5.9      凡以毒害代替公正，棄正義於地的，是有禍的!
 亞:5.10     他們憎恨在城門口主持公道的人，厭惡講真話的人。
 亞:5.11     為此，你們既然欺壓窮人，向他們橫征錢糧，你們縱然用方石建築了房屋，卻不得住在裏面；栽植了美麗的葡萄園，卻喝不到園中的酒。
 亞:5.12     因為我知道你們罪惡多端，過犯重大：欺壓義人，接受賄賂，在城門口冤枉窮人；
 亞:5.13     因此明智人在此時緘默不言，因為這是邪惡的時代。
 亞:5.14     你們應尋求善，不可尋求惡：這樣你們才能生存；上主萬軍的天主也必與你們同在，正如你們所說的。
 亞:5.15     你們應惡惡好善，在城門口主張正義，或許萬軍的天主會憐憫若瑟的遺民。」
 亞:5.16     [上主親來懲罰]  為此，萬軍的天主，吾主上主這樣說：「人必在一切廣場上哀悼，人必在各街道上說：哀哉!哀哉!並且召農人們來弔信，叫會哭的人來痛哭。
 亞:5.17     在所有的葡萄園中，人必哀哭，因為我要在你們中間經過」──上主說。
 亞:5.18     [上主的日子]  「那仰望上主日子來臨的人是有福的!上主的日子為你們有我們什麼好處﹖那是黑暗和無光明之日，
 亞:5.19     好似人逃避了獅子，又遇到了狗熊；進到房屋裏，手扶在牆上，卻被蛇咬傷。
 亞:5.20     上主的日子豈不是黑暗而沒有光明嗎﹖那日實在幽暗而漆黑!
 亞:5.21     [申斥不義者的祭獻]  「我痛恨厭惡你們的慶節；你們的盛會，我也不喜悅；
 亞:5.22     既使你們給我奉獻全燔祭和素祭，我仍不悅納；既使你們獻上肥牲作和平祭，我也不垂顧。
 亞:5.23     讓你們喧嚷的歌聲遠離我；你們的琴聲，我也不願再聽；
 亞:5.24     如願公道如水常流，正義像川流不息的江河!
 亞:5.25     以色列家!你們在曠野中四十年，何嘗給我奉獻過犧牲和素祭﹖
 亞:5.26     你們應抬著自己所造的偶像，即你們的君王撒雇特和你們的星神克汪，
 亞:5.27     因為必使你們充軍到大馬士革之外，」名叫「萬軍的天主」的上主說。
  
 亞:6.1      [攻斥安享快樂的人]  那些安身熙雍，自恃撒馬黎雅山，自命為諸民之首，為以色列家所歸之人，是有禍的!
 亞:6.2      你們去加耳乃觀察一下，從那裏到大哈瑪特，然後下到培肋舍特人的加特，看你們是否比這些國更好﹖或者你們的疆域比她們的更廣大，
 亞:6.3      那些想避開凶日的，卻接近了殘暴。
 亞:6.4      他們躺在象牙床上，棋橫臥在軟榻上，吃著羊群中的羔羊和牛欄中的牛犢，
 亞:6.5      伴著琴聲吟詠，自比達味，發明樂器，
 亞:6.6      大碗喝酒，以上等的油抹身，但對若瑟的崩潰，卻漠不關心。
 亞:6.7      為此，這些人現在就要先被擄去；放蕩不羈者的狂歡，也就完了。
 亞:6.8      [驕奢的悲慘結局]  吾主上主指著自己起誓──上主萬軍的天主的斷語──我厭惡雅各伯的驕傲，痛恨他的宮殿；我必將城和城中所有有的一切交出。
 亞:6.9      倘若在一家中留下了十個人，也必死盡。
 亞:6.10     倖免的少數親友，由屋內抬出他們的骨骸，問那內室深處的人說：「還有人同你在一起嗎﹖」他必說：「沒有了。」繼而說：「不要作聲，千萬不要提上主的名字!」
 亞:6.11     看，上主一下令，高樓大廈頓成瓦礫，矮小平房蕩然無存。
 亞:6.12     馬豈能在懸崖上奔馳，牛豈能在海上耕作﹖你們竟將公道變為毒藥!將正義之果變為苦藥!
 亞:6.13     你們為了羅德巴爾而自鳴得意，且說：「我們豈不是靠自己的力量取得了卡爾納殷﹖」
 亞:6.14     然而，以色列家!看，我必要喚起一個民族來攻打你們，──上主萬軍的天主的斷語──從哈瑪特關口蹂躪你們直到阿辣巴河。
  
 亞:7.1      [神視一　蝗災]  吾主上主叫我看見這事：割完君王的青草，當晚草初生時，蝗蟲出現了。
 亞:7.2      當蝗蟲要吃光地上的青草時，我就說：「吾主上主，求你饒恕罷!雅各伯還怎能存在﹖他已這樣弱小!」
 亞:7.3      上主對這事後悔了。上主說：「這事不會發生。」
 亞:7.4      [神視二　旱災]  吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，吾主上主召來懲罰的火，燒毀了廣大的深淵，又燒毀了上主的基業。
 亞:7.5      我就說：「吾主上主!求你罷休!雅各伯還怎能存在﹖他已這樣弱小!」
 亞:7.6      上主對這事後悔了。吾主上主說：「這事也不會發生。」
 亞:7.7      [神視三　鉛垂線]  吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，有一個人立在牆上，手中拿著一條鉛垂線。
 亞:7.8      上主對我說：「亞毛斯，你看見了什麼﹖」我答說：「一條鉛垂線。」吾主說：「看，我將鉛垂線安置在我民族以色列當中，我不再放過她。
 亞:7.9      依撒格的高丘必要荒蕪，以色列的聖所必要廢棄；我必起來攻擊雅洛貝罕家。」
 亞:7.10     [先知被放逐]  那時，貝特耳司祭阿瑪責雅派人向以色列王雅洛貝罕說：「亞毛斯在以色列家中圖謀背叛你，國家再不能容受他的一切言論，
 亞:7.11     因為亞毛斯這樣說：雅洛貝罕必死於刀下，以色列必被據去充軍，遠離本土。」
 亞:7.12     事後，阿瑪責雅又向亞毛斯說：「先見者，你走吧!趕快到猶大國去，在那裏餬口，在那裏講預言。
 亞:7.13     在貝特耳不可講預言，因為這裏是君王的殿宇。」
 亞:7.14     亞毛斯回答阿瑪責雅說：「我原不是先知，也不是先知的弟子，只是一個放羊兼修剪野無花果的人。
 亞:7.15     但是，上主正在我趕羊時提了我來。上主對我說：你去向我的百姓以色列講預言吧!
 亞:7.16     現在你且聽上主說什麼。你說：不要講預言攻擊以色列，不要發言反對依撒格家!
 亞:7.17     為此，上主這樣說：你的妻子必在城中賣淫，你的子女必喪身刀下，你的田地必被人以繩墨瓜分，你自己必死在不潔之地，以色列必被擄去充軍，遠離本土。」
  
 亞:8.1      [神視四　果籃]  吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，有一籃熟果子。
 亞:8.2      上主說：「亞毛斯，你看見了什麼﹖」我答說：「一籃熟果子。」上主又向我說：「我百姓以色列的結局已成熟，我不再放過她。
 亞:8.3      在那一天，王宮中的歌女必要哀號──吾主上主的斷語──屍體成堆，拋在各處，鴉雀無聲。」
 亞:8.4      [斥責欺詐]  壓榨窮人，使世上弱小絕跡的人哪!你們應聽。
 亞:8.5      你們說：「月朔幾時才經過去，好讓我們賣五榖﹖安息日幾時才過去，好讓我們打開糧倉，縮小「厄法，」加重「協刻爾，」用假秤欺人﹖
 亞:8.6      用銀錢購買窮人，以一雙鞋換取貧人，連麥糠也賣掉﹖」
 亞:8.7      上主指著雅各伯的誇耀說：「我永不會忘了你們的所作所為。
 亞:8.8      難道不是因此大地才震動，地上居民才悲號，全地氾濫有如尼羅，退落有如埃及大河﹖
 亞:8.9      在那一天──吾主上主的斷語──我必使太陽在中午落下，使大地白畫變為黑暗；
 亞:8.10     使你們的喜慶變為喪事，使你們的一切樂曲變為哀歌，使你們都腰繫苦衣，頭都剃光；使你們哀悼，如哀悼獨生子，使那一天紿終是愁苦的日子。
 亞:8.11     看，那日子一來臨──吾主上主的斷語──我必使飢餓臨於此地，汞是對食物的飢餓，也不是對水的飢渴，而是對聽上主的話的飢渴。
 亞:8.12     他們必由這海走到那海，由北至東，去尋求上主的話，卻尋不到。
 亞:8.13     那一天，美麗的處女和健壯的青年，必因饑渴而暈眩。
 亞:8.14     那些指著撒馬黎雅的罪過起誓，那些說：「丹，你的神永在，」或說：「貝爾舍巴，你的護守神永在」的人，必要跌倒，再不能起來。
  
 亞:9.1      [神視五　號上主消滅惡人無一幸免]  我看見吾主站在祭壇旁，擊打柱帽，門限震動。祂說：「我要砍下他們眾人的頭，剩下的要用刀殺盡；他們中一個也逃不了，一個也不能幸免生存。
 亞:9.2      既使鑽入陰府，我的手必從那裏將他們揪出；既使飛上高天，我也必從那裏將他們拉下；
 亞:9.3      既使藏在加爾默耳山頂，我必去搜尋，從那裏逮回；既使避開我的眼目逃入海底，我也必令蛟龍將他們咬死；
 亞:9.4      既使在敵人面前被擄去充軍，我必命刀劍殺死他們；我的眼注視他們，是為加害，不是為祝福。」
 亞:9.5      吾主萬軍的上主一觸摸大地，大地就溶化，地上所有的居民便都哀號，全地泛濫有如尼羅，退落有如埃及大河。
 亞:9.6      祂在高天建造了樓閣，在地上奠定了穹蒼，召海水傾流於地面，祂名叫「雅威」。
 亞:9.7      以色列子民!你們對我豈不是像雇士子民﹖──上主的斷語──豈不是我由埃及領出了以色列，由加非托爾領出了培肋舍特人，由克爾領出了阿蘭人﹖
 亞:9.8      看，吾主上主的眼注視這犯罪的國家，我必由此地面上將她消滅。[復興的預許]  然而我不全然消滅雅各伯家──上主的斷語──
 亞:9.9      看，我必下令，要在萬民中如人用篩子篩以色列，不讓一粒落在地上。
 亞:9.10     我百姓中那些人說：「災禍不會臨近，不會來到我們身上」的一罪人，都要死在刀下。
 亞:9.11     在那一天，我必樹起達味已塌蹋的帳幕，修補它的缺口，重建它的廢壚：使它重建有如往日，
 亞:9.12     使他們征服厄木田的遣民和屬於我名下的萬民──行這事的上主的斷語──
 亞:9.13     看，時日將到，──上主的斷語──那時耕田的人要緊靠著收割的人，榨洒的人要緊靠著播種的人；山嶺要滴下新酒，丘陵都要溶化奔流。
 亞:9.14     我必要轉變我民以色列的命運，他們必要重建已荒廢的城市，再住在其中；栽植葡萄園，飲其中的美酒；耕種田園，吃其中出產。
 亞:9.15     我要將他們栽植在自己的地內，他們不會再從我賜與他們的地上被拔除──上主你的天主說。 [亞毛斯完篇]
  
 am:1.       [Amos]   9 chapters   [亞毛斯]  [英文版]
  
 am:1.1      The words of Amos, a shepherd from Tekoa, which he received in vision concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake:
 am:1.2      The LORD will roar from Zion, and from Jerusalem raise his voice: The pastures of the shepherds will languish, and the summit of Carmel wither.
 am:1.3      Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron,
 am:1.4      I will send fire upon the house of Hazael, to devour the castles of Ben-hadad.
 am:1.5      I will break the bar of Damascus; I will root out those who live in the Valley of Aven, And the sceptered ruler of Beth-eden; the people of Aram shall be exiled to Kir, says the LORD.
 am:1.6      Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they took captive whole groups to hand over to Edom,
 am:1.7      I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza, to devour her castles;
 am:1.8      I will root out those who live in Ashdod, and the sceptered ruler of Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the last of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord God.
 am:1.9      Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will not revoke my word; Because they delivered whole groups captive to Edom, and did not remember the pact of brotherhood,
 am:1.10     I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre,to devour her castles.
 am:1.11     Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because he pursued his brother with the sword, choking up all pity; Because he persisted in his anger and kept his wrath to the end,
 am:1.12     I will send fire upon Teman, and it will devour the castles of Bozrah.
 am:1.13     Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they ripped open expectant mothers in Gilead, while extending their territory,
 am:1.14     I will kindle a fire upon the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour her castles Amid clamor on the day of battle and stormwind in a time of tempest.
 am:1.15     Their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes with him, says the LORD.
  
 am:2.1      Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom's king,
 am:2.2      I will send fire upon Moab, to devour the castles of Kerioth; Moab shall meet death amid uproar and shouts and trumpet blasts.
 am:2.3      I will root out the judge from her midst, and her princes I will slay with him, says the LORD.
 am:2.4      Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they spurned the law of the LORD, and did not keep his statutes; Because the lies which their fathers followed have led them astray,
 am:2.5      I will send fire upon Judah, to devour the castles of Jerusalem.
 am:2.6      Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they sell the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals.
 am:2.7      They trample the heads of the weak into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son and father go to the same prostitute, profaning my holy name.
 am:2.8      Upon garments taken in pledge they recline beside any altar; And the wine of those who have been fined they drink in the house of their god.
 am:2.9      Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, who were as tall as the cedars, and as strong as the oak trees. I destroyed their fruit above, and their roots beneath.
 am:2.10     It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years, to occupy the land of the Amorites:
 am:2.11     I who raised up prophets among your sons, and nazirites among your young men. Is this not so, O men of Israel? says the LORD.
 am:2.12     But you gave the nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
 am:2.13     Beware, I will crush you into the ground as a wagon crushes when laden with sheaves.
 am:2.14     Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong man shall not retain his strength; The warrior shall not save his life,
 am:2.15     nor the bowman stand his ground; The swift of foot shall not escape, nor the horseman save his life.
 am:2.16     And the most stouthearted of warriors shall flee naked on that day, says the LORD.

 am:3.1      Hear this word, O men of Israel, that the LORD pronounces over you, over the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:
 am:3.2      You alone have I favored, more than all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your crimes.
 am:3.3      Do two walk together unless they have agreed?
 am:3.4      Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from its den unless it has seized something?
 am:3.5      Is a bird brought to earth by a snare when there is no lure for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground without catching anything?
 am:3.6      If the trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not be frightened? If evil befalls a city, has not the LORD caused it?
 am:3.7      Indeed, the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants, the prophets.
 am:3.8      The lion roars-- who will not be afraid! The Lord GOD speaks-- who will not prophesy!
 am:3.9      Proclaim this in the castles of Ashdod, in the castles of the land of Egypt: "Gather about the mountain of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, the oppression in her midst."
 am:3.10     For they know not how to do what is right, says the LORD, Storing up in their castles what they have extorted and robbed.
 am:3.11     Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: An enemy shall surround the land, and strip you of your strength, and pillage your castles,
 am:3.12     Thus says the LORD: As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion a pair of legs or the tip of an ear of his sheep, So the Israelites who dwell in Samaria shall escape with the corner of a couch or a piece of a cot.
 am:3.13     Hear and bear witness against the house of Jacob, says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts:
 am:3.14     On the day when I punish Israel for his crimes, I will visit also the altars of Bethel: The horns of the altar shall be broken off and fall to the ground.
 am:3.15     Then will I strike the winter house and the summer house; The ivory apartments shall be ruined, and their many rooms shall be no more, says the LORD.

 am:4.1      Hear this word, women of the mountain of Samaria, you cows of Bashan, You who oppress the weak and abuse the needy; Who say to your lords, "Bring drink for us!"
 am:4.2      The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness: Truly the days are coming upon you When they shall drag you away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks;
 am:4.3      You shall go out through the breached walls each by the most direct way, And you shall be cast into the mire, says the LORD.
 am:4.4      Come to Bethel and sin, to Gilgal, and sin the more; Each morning bring your sacrifices, every third day, your tithes;
 am:4.5      Burn leavened food as a thanksgiving sacrifice, proclaim publicly your freewill offerings, For so you love to do, O men of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
 am:4.6      Though I have made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, and have made bread scarce in all your dwellings, Yet you returned not to me, says the LORD.
 am:4.7      Though I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was still three months away; I sent rain upon one city but not upon another; One field was watered by rain, but another without rain dried up;
 am:4.8      Though two or three cities staggered to one city for water that did not quench their thirst; Yet you returned not to me, says the LORD.
 am:4.9      I struck you with blight and searing wind; your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees the locust devoured; Yet you returned not to me, says the LORD.
 am:4.10     I sent upon you a pestilence like that of Egypt, and with the sword I slew your young men; Your horses I let be captured, to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps; Yet you returned not to me, says the LORD.
 am:4.11     I brought upon you such upheaval as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: you were like a brand plucked from the fire; Yet you returned not to me, says the LORD.
 am:4.12     So now I will deal with you in my own way, O Israel! and since I will deal thus with you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel:
 am:4.13     Him who formed the mountains, and created the wind, and declares to man his thoughts; Who made the dawn and the darkness, and strides upon the heights of the earth: The LORD, the God of hosts by name.
  
 am:5.1      Hear this word which I utter over you, a lament, O house of Israel:
 am:5.2      She is fallen, to rise no more, the virgin Israel; She lies abandoned upon her land, with no one to raise her up.
 am:5.3      For thus says the Lord GOD: The city that marched out with a thousand shall be left without a hundred, Another that marched out with a hundred shall be left with ten, of the house of Israel.
 am:5.4      For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: Seek me, that you may live,
 am:5.5      but do not seek Bethel; Do not come to Gilgal, and do not cross to Beer-sheba. For Gilgal shall be led into exile, and Bethel shall become nought.
 am:5.6      Seek the LORD, that you may live, lest he come upon the house of Joseph like a fire That shall consume, with none to quench it for the house of Israel:
 am:5.7      Woe to those who turn judgment to wormwood and cast justice to the ground!
 am:5.8      He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn, and darkens day into night; Who summons the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth;
 am:5.9      Who flashes destruction upon the strong, and brings ruin upon the fortress; whose name is LORD.
 am:5.10     They hate him who reproves at the gate and abhor him who speaks the truth.
 am:5.11     Therefore, because you have trampled upon the weak and exacted of them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them! Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine!
 am:5.12     Yes, I know how many are your crimes, how grievous your sins: Oppressing the just, accepting bribes, repelling the needy at the gate!
 am:5.13     Therefore the prudent man is silent at this time, for it is an evil time.
 am:5.14     Seek good and not evil, that you may live; Then truly will the LORD, the God of hosts, be with you as you claim!
 am:5.15     Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.
 am:5.16     Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: In every square there shall be lamentation, and in every street they shall cry, Alas! Alas! They shall summon the farmers to wail and professional mourners to lament,
 am:5.17     And in every vineyard there shall be lamentation when I pass through your midst, says the LORD.
 am:5.18     Woe to those who yearn for the day of the LORD! What will this day of the LORD mean for you? Darkness and not light!
 am:5.19     As if a man went to flee from a lion, and a bear should meet him; Or as if on entering his house he were to rest his hand against the wall, and a snake should bite him.
 am:5.20     Will not the day of the LORD be darkness and not light, gloom without any brightness?
 am:5.21     I hate, I spurn your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities;
 am:5.22     Your cereal offerings I will not accept, nor consider your stall-fed peace offerings.
 am:5.23     Away with your noisy songs! I will not listen to the melodies of your harps. But if you would offer me holocausts,
 am:5.24     then let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream.
 am:5.25     Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
 am:5.26     You will carry away Sakkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your star god, the images that you have made for yourselves;
 am:5.27     For I will exile you beyond Damascus, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts by name.

 am:6.1      Woe to the complacent in Zion, to the overconfident on the mount of Samaria, Leaders of a nation favored from the first, to whom the people of Israel have recourse!
 am:6.2      Pass over to Calneh and see, go from there to Hamath the great, and down to Gath of the Philistines! Are you better than these kingdoms, or is your territory wider than theirs?
 am:6.3      You would put off the evil day, yet you hasten the reign of violence!
 am:6.4      Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, They eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall!
 am:6.5      Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment.
 am:6.6      They drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph!
 am:6.7      Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and their wanton revelry shall be done away with.
 am:6.8      The Lord GOD has sworn by his very self, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his castles, and I give over the city with everything in it;
 am:6.9      Should there remain ten men in a single house, these shall die.
 am:6.10     Only a few shall be left to carry the dead out of the houses; If one says to a man inside a house, "Is anyone with you?" and he answers, "No one," Then he shall say, "Silence!" for no one must mention the name of the LORD.
 am:6.11     Indeed, the LORD has given the command to shatter the great house to bits, and reduce the small house to rubble.
 am:6.12     Can horses run across a cliff? or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.
 am:6.13     You rejoice in Lodebar, and say, "Have we not, by our own strength, seized for ourselves Karnaim?"
 am:6.14     Beware, I am raising up against you, O house of Israel, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts, A nation that shall oppress you from Labo of Hamath even to the Wadi Arabah.
  
 am:7.1      This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was forming a locust swarm when the late growth began to come up (the late growth after the king's mowing).
 am:7.2      While they were eating all the grass in the land, I said: Forgive, O Lord GOD! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!
 am:7.3      And the LORD repented of this. "It shall not be," said the Lord GOD.
 am:7.4      Then the Lord GOD showed me this: he called for a judgment by fire. It had devoured the great abyss, and was consuming the land,
 am:7.5      when I said: Cease, O Lord GOD! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!
 am:7.6      The LORD repented of this. "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.
 am:7.7      Then the Lord GOD showed me this: he was standing by a wall, plummet in hand.
 am:7.8      The LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" And when I answered, "A plummet," the Lord said: See, I will lay the plummet in the midst of my people Israel; I will forgive them no longer.
 am:7.9      The high places of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the sanctuaries of Israel made desolate; I will attack the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
 am:7.10      Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: "Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words.
 am:7.11      For this is what Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be exiled from its land."
 am:7.12      To Amos, Amaziah said: "Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying,
 am:7.13      but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal temple."
 am:7.14      Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores.
 am:7.15      The LORD took me from following the flock, and said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
 am:7.16      Now hear the word of the LORD!" You say: prophesy not against Israel, preach not against the house of Isaac.
 am:7.17      Now thus says the LORD: Your wife shall be made a harlot in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by measuring line, and you yourself shall die in an unclean land; Israel shall be exiled far from its land.

 am:8.1       This is what the Lord GOD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
 am:8.2       "What do you see, Amos?" he asked. I answered, "A basket of ripe fruit." Then the LORD said to me: The time is ripe to have done with my people Israel; I will forgive them no longer.
 am:8.3   T   he temple songs shall become wailings on that day, says the Lord GOD. Many shall be the corpses, strewn everywhere.--Silence!
 am:8.4       Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!
 am:8.5       "When will the new moon be over," you ask, "that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating!
 am:8.6       We will buy the lowly man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!"
 am:8.7       The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done!
 am:8.8       Shall not the land tremble because of this, and all who dwell in it mourn, While it rises up and tosses like the Nile, and settles back like the river of Egypt?
 am:8.9       On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun set at midday and cover the earth with darkness in broad daylight.
 am:8.10      I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentations. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make them mourn as for an only son, and bring their day to a bitter end.
 am:8.11      Yes, days are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD.
 am:8.12      Then shall they wander from sea to sea and rove from the north to the east In search of the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.
 am:8.13      On that day, fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst;
 am:8.14      Those who swear by the shameful idol of Samaria, "By the life of your god, O Dan!" "By the life of your love, O Beersheba!" those shall fall, never to rise again.

 am:9.1       I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the bases, so that the doorjambs totter till you break them off on the heads of them all! Those who are left I will slay with the sword; not one shall flee, no survivor shall escape.
 am:9.2       Though they break through to the nether world, even from there my hand shall bring them out; Though they climb to the heavens, I will bring them down;
 am:9.3       Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, there too I will hunt them out and take them away; Though they hide from my gaze in the bottom of the sea, I will command the serpent there to bite them;
 am:9.4       Though they are led into captivity by their enemies, there will I command the sword to slay them. I will fix my gaze upon them for evil, and not for good,
 am:9.5       I, the Lord GOD of hosts. I melt the earth with my touch, so that all who dwell on it mourn, While it all rises up like the Nile, and settles back like the river of Egypt;
 am:9.6       I have built heaven, my upper chamber, and established my vault over the earth; I summon the waters of the sea and pour them upon the surface of the earth, I, the LORD by name.
 am:9.7       Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O men of Israel, says the LORD? Did I not bring the Israelites from the land of Egypt As I brought the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?
 am:9.8       The eyes of the Lord GOD are on this sinful kingdom; I will destroy it from off the face of the earth. But I will not destroy the house of Jacob completely, says the LORD.
 am:9.9       For see, I have given the command to sift the house of Israel among all the nations, As one sifts with a sieve, letting no pebble fall to the ground.
 am:9.10      By the sword shall all sinners among my people die, those who say, "Evil will not reach or overtake us."
 am:9.11      On that day I will raise up the fallen hut of David; I will wall up its breaches, raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
 am:9.12      That they may conquer what is left of Edom and all the nations that shall bear my name, say I, the LORD, who will do this.
 am:9.13      Yes, days are coming, says the LORD, When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the vintager, him who sows the seed; The juice of grapes shall drip down the mountains, and all the hills shall run with it.
 am:9.14      I will bring about the restoration of my people Israel; they shall rebuild and inhabit their ruined cities, Plant vineyards and drink the wine, set out gardens and eat the fruits.
 am:9.15      I will plant them upon their own ground; never again shall they be plucked From the land I have given them, say I, the LORD, your God. [end of Amos]

