Amos 5

1 Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

1 以色列家啊， 听我为你们唱哀歌：

2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

2 “少女以色列跌倒了， 再也站不起来； 她被遗弃在自己的土地上， 无人扶她起来。”

3 This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

3 因为主耶和华说： “以色列家的城邑中， 出兵一千的，只有百人生还； 出兵一百的，只有十人生还。”

4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

4 耶和华对以色列家说： “你们要寻求我，才能存活。

5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

5 不要去伯特利求问， 不要进入吉甲， 也不要前往别示巴， 因为吉甲人必被掳去， 伯特利也必化为乌有。”

6 Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

6 你们要寻求耶和华，才能存活。 否则，祂要在约瑟家 如烈火爆发， 吞噬伯特利，无人能扑灭。

7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

7 你们这些使正义变为苦艾、将公义丢弃在地的人啊，

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 over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

8 那位造昴星和参星、 使幽暗变为黎明、 使白昼变为黑夜、 召来海水浇在大地上的， 祂的名字是耶和华。

9 He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

9 祂使毁灭如闪电临到强者， 摧毁他们的坚城。

10 There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

10 你们憎恨在城门口主持公道的人， 厌恶说话正直的人。

11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

11 你们践踏穷人， 对他们横征暴敛。 因此，你们用凿过的石头建房， 却不得居住在里面； 你们栽种佳美的葡萄园， 却喝不到葡萄酒。

12 For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

12 我知道你们的过犯累累、罪恶无数。 你们迫害义人，收受贿赂， 在城门口冤枉穷人。

13 Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

13 这是邪恶的时代， 所以明智者静默不言。

14 Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

14 你们要弃恶从善，才能存活。 这样，万军之上帝耶和华必与你们同在， 正如你们所说的。

15 Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

15 你们要恨恶邪恶，喜爱良善， 在城门口伸张正义， 也许万军之上帝耶和华会恩待约瑟的余民。

16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

16 因此，主——万军之上帝耶和华说： “哀号之声要响遍各广场， 哭喊之声将充满大街小巷。 农夫被叫来哭泣， 哭丧者被召来哀号。

17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

17 每个葡萄园都传出哀号声， 因为我要从你们中间经过。 这是耶和华说的。”

18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

18 盼望耶和华的日子到来的人有祸了！ 你们为什么盼望耶和华的日子呢？ 那日将带来黑暗，而非光明。

19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

19 你们的光景将好像人逃避狮子， 却遇上了熊， 逃回家里，手扶墙壁， 又被蛇咬。

20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

20 耶和华的日子将充满黑暗，毫无光明， 一片漆黑， 毫无亮光。

21 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

21 “我憎恶、鄙弃你们的节期， 厌恶你们的圣会。

22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

22 即使你们献上燔祭和素祭， 我也不悦纳； 即使你们用肥美的牲畜献上平安祭， 我也不屑一顾。

23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

23 消除你们嘈杂的歌声吧， 我不想听到你们的琴音。

24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

24 唯愿公正如江河滔滔不尽， 公义如溪流绵绵不绝。

25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

25 以色列家啊， 在旷野的四十年间， 你们向我献过祭物和供物吗？

26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

26 你们抬着为自己造的神像， 就是你们的王撒固和星神迦温。

27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

27 所以我要把你们流放到比大马士革还远的地方。” 这是耶和华说的，祂的名字是万军之上帝。