阿摩司書 第 2 章

¹耶和華如此說：摩押三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他的刑罰；因為他將以東王的骸骨焚燒成灰。Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

²我卻要降火在摩押，燒滅加略的宮殿。摩押必在鬨嚷吶喊吹角之中死亡。But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

³我必剪除摩押中的審判者，將其中的一切首領和他一同殺戮。這是耶和華說的。And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

⁴耶和華如此說：猶大人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰；因為他們厭棄耶和華的訓誨，不遵守他的律例。他們列祖所隨從虛假的偶像使他們走迷了。Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

⁵我卻要降火在猶大，燒滅耶路撒冷的宮殿。But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

⁶耶和華如此說：以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰；因他們為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人。Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

⁷他們見窮人頭上所蒙的灰也都垂涎，阻礙謙卑人的道路。父子同一個女子行淫，褻瀆我的聖名。That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

⁸他們在各壇旁鋪人所當的衣服，臥在其上，又在他們神的廟中喝受罰之人的酒。And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

⁹我從以色列人面前除滅亞摩利人。他雖高大如香柏樹，堅固如橡樹，我卻上滅他的果子，下絕他的根本。Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

¹⁰我也將你們從埃及地領上來，在曠野引導你們四十年，使你們得亞摩利人之地為業。Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹我從你們子弟中興起先知，又從你們少年人中興起拿細耳人。以色列人哪，不是這樣麼？這是耶和華說的。And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

¹²你們卻給拿細耳人酒喝，囑咐先知說：不要說預言。But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

¹³看哪，在你們所住之地，我必壓你們，如同裝滿禾捆的車壓物一樣。Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

¹⁴快跑的不能逃脫；有力的不能用力；剛勇的也不能自救。Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

¹⁵拿弓的不能站立；腿快的不能逃脫；騎馬的也不能自救。Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

¹⁶到那日，勇士中最有膽量的，必赤身逃跑。這是耶和華說的。And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.