阿摩司书 第 9 章

¹我看见主站在祭坛旁边；他说：你要击打柱顶，使门槛震动，打碎柱顶，落在众人头上；所剩下的人，我必用刀杀戮，无一人能逃避，无一人能逃脱。I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

²他们虽然挖透阴间，我的手必取出他们来；虽然爬上天去，我必拿下他们来；Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

³虽然藏在迦密山顶，我必搜寻，捉出他们来；虽然从我眼前藏在海底，我必命蛇咬他们；And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

⁴虽被仇敌掳去，我必命刀剑杀戮他们；我必向他们定住眼目，降祸不降福。And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

⁵主─万军之耶和华摸地，地就消化，凡住在地上的都必悲哀。地必全然像尼罗河涨起，如同埃及河落下。And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

⁶那在天上建造楼阁、在地上安定穹苍、命海水浇在地上的─耶和华是他的名。It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

⁷耶和华说：以色列人哪，我岂不看你们如古实人吗？我岂不是领以色列人出埃及地，领非利士人出迦斐托，领亚兰人出吉珥吗？Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

⁸主耶和华的眼目察看这有罪的国，必将这国从地上灭绝，却不将雅各家灭绝净尽。这是耶和华说的。Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

⁹我必出令，将以色列家分散在列国中，好像用筛子筛谷，连一粒也不落在地上。For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

¹⁰我民中的一切罪人说：灾祸必追不上我们，也迎不着我们。他们必死在刀下。All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

¹¹到那日，我必建立大卫倒塌的帐幕，堵住其中的破口，把那破坏的建立起来，重新修造，像古时一样，In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

¹²使以色列人得以东所余剩的和所有称为我名下的国。此乃行这事的耶和华说的。That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

¹³耶和华说：日子将到，耕种的必接续收割的；踹葡萄的必接续撒种的；大山要滴下甜酒；小山都必流奶（原文是消化，见约珥三章十八节）。Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

¹⁴我必使我民以色列被掳的归回；他们必重修荒废的城邑居住，栽种葡萄园，喝其中所出的酒，修造果木园，吃其中的果子。And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

¹⁵我要将他们栽于本地，他们不再从我所赐给他们的地上拔出来。这是耶和华─你的神说的。And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.