Amos 4:1–5:27
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Amos 4:1–5:27 · Psalm 140 (MT: 141) · Proverbs 29:26 · Revelation 4:1–11
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1Hear ye this word, ye heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.
1Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
2The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.
2The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
3And ye shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and ye shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, saith the Lord.
3You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
4Ye went into Bæthel, and sinned, and ye multiplied sin at Galgala; and ye brought your meat-offerings in the morning, [and] your tithes every third day.
4“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
5And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, saith the Lord .
5offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
6And I will give you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.
6“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
7Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.
7“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
8And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet ye have not returned to me, saith the Lord.
8So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
9I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your oliveyards: yet not [even] thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.
9“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
10I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with thy horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.
10“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
11I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and ye became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.
11“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
12Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to thee, prepare to call on thy God, O Israel.
12“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
13For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.
13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
1Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
1Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
2The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.
2“The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”
3Therefore thus saith the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, [in it] there shall be left a hundred , and [in that] out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.
3For the Lord Yahweh says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
4Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.
4For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
5But seek not Bæthel, and go not in to Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bæthel shall be as that which is not.
5but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
6Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.
6Seek Yahweh, and you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
7[It is he] that executes judgment in the height [above], and he has established justice on the earth:
7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
8who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:
8Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
9who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.
9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
10They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
11Thereforebecause they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses , but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.
11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
12For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.
12For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.
13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.
13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,
14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
15We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgment in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
16Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets [shall be] lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
16Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
17And [there shall be] lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
17In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
18Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.
18“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
19As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
20Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this [day] gloom without brightness ?
20Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell [your] meat-offerings in your general assemblies.
21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
22Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I have respect to your grand peace -offerings .
22Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
23Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
23Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
24But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
25Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices , O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
25“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
26Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Ræphan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.
26You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
27And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.
27Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.