Amos 5

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

1 以色列家啊，要听我为你们所作的哀歌：

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

2 以色列民 跌倒，不得再起； 躺在地上，无人搀扶。

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 主耶和华如此说： 以色列家的城发出一千兵的，只剩一百； 发出一百的，只剩十个。

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

4 耶和华向以色列家如此说： 你们要寻求我，就必存活。

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 不要往伯特利寻求， 不要进入吉甲， 不要过到别是巴； 因为吉甲必被掳掠， 伯特利也必归于无有。

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 要寻求耶和华，就必存活， 免得他在约瑟家像火发出， 在伯特利焚烧，无人扑灭。

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

7 你们这使公平变为茵 、 将公义丢弃于地的，

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 要寻求那造昴星和参星， 使死荫变为晨光， 使白日变为黑夜， 命海水来浇在地上的— 耶和华是他的名；

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

9 他使力强的忽遭灭亡， 以致保障遭遇毁坏。

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

10 你们怨恨那在城门口责备人的， 憎恶那说正直话的。

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 你们践踏贫民， 向他们勒索麦子； 你们用凿过的石头建造房屋， 却不得住在其内； 栽种美好的葡萄园， 却不得喝所出的酒。

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 我知道你们的罪过何等多， 你们的罪恶何等大。 你们苦待义人，收受贿赂，在城门口屈枉穷乏人。

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

13 所以通达人见这样的时势必静默不言， 因为时势真恶。

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 你们要求善， 不要求恶，就必存活。 这样，耶和华—万军之 神 必照你们所说的与你们同在。

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 要恶恶好善， 在城门口秉公行义； 或者耶和华—万军之 神向约瑟的余民施恩。

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 主耶和华—万军之 神如此说： 在一切宽阔处必有哀号的声音； 在各街市上必有人说： 哀哉！哀哉！ 又必叫农夫来哭号， 叫善唱哀歌的来举哀。

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

17 在各葡萄园必有哀号的声音， 因为我必从你中间经过。 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 想望耶和华日子来到的有祸了！ 你们为何想望耶和华的日子呢？ 那日黑暗没有光明，

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 景况好像人躲避狮子又遇见熊， 或是进房屋以手靠墙，就被蛇咬。

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

20 耶和华的日子不是黑暗没有光明吗？ 不是幽暗毫无光辉吗？

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

21 我厌恶你们的节期， 也不喜悦你们的严肃会。

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 你们虽然向我献燔祭和素祭， 我却不悦纳， 也不顾你们用肥畜献的平安祭；

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

23 要使你们歌唱的声音远离我， 因为我不听你们弹琴的响声。

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

24 惟愿公平如大水滚滚， 使公义如江河滔滔。

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

25 「以色列家啊，你们在旷野四十年，岂是将祭物和供物献给我呢？

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

26 你们抬着为自己所造之摩洛的帐幕和偶像的龛，并你们的神星。

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

27 所以我要把你们掳到大马士革以外。」这是耶和华、名为万军之 神说的。