Amos 5
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
1[Audite verbum istud, quod ego levo super vos planctum: domus Israël cecidit, et non adjiciet ut resurgat.
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.”
2Virgo Israël projecta est in terram suam, non est qui suscitet eam.
3For the Lord GOD 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.”
3Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Urbs de qua egrediebantur mille, relinquentur in ea centum; et de qua egrediebantur centum, relinquentur in ea decem in domo Israël.
4For the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
4Quia hæc dicit Dominus domui Israël: Quærite me, et vivetis.
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.
5Et nolite quærere Bethel, et in Galgalam nolite intrare, et in Bersabee non transibitis, quia Galgala captiva ducetur, et Bethel erit inutilis.
6Seek the LORD, 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.
6Quærite Dominum, et vivite (ne forte comburatur ut ignis domus Joseph, et devorabit, et non erit qui extinguat Bethel:
7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
7qui convertitis in absinthium judicium, et justitiam in terra relinquitis):
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, the LORD is his name,
8facientem Arcturum et Orionem, et convertentem in mane tenebras, et diem in noctem mutantem; qui vocat aquas maris, et effundit eas super faciem terræ; Dominus nomen est ejus:
9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
9qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
10Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta, et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.
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.
11Idcirco, pro eo quod diripiebatis pauperem, et prædam electam tollebatis ab eo, domos quadro lapide ædificabitis, et non habitabitis in eis; vineas plantabis amantissimas, et non bibetis vinum earum.
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.
12Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra: hostes justi, accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta.
13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
13Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit, quia tempus malum est.
14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
14Quærite bonum, et non malum, ut vivatis; et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum, sicut dixistis.
15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
15Odite malum et diligite bonum, et constituite in porta judicium: si forte misereatur Dominus Deus exercituum reliquiis Joseph.
16Therefore the LORD, 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.
16Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum, dominator: In omnibus plateis planctus; et in cunctis quæ foris sunt, dicetur: Væ, væ ! et vocabunt agricolam ad luctum, et ad planctum eos qui sciunt plangere.
17In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says the LORD.
17Et in omnibus vineis erit planctus, quia pertransibo in medio tui, dicit Dominus.]
18“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
18[Væ desiderantibus diem Domini ! ad quid eam vobis? Dies Domini ista, tenebræ, et non lux.
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.
19Quomodo si fugiat vir a facie leonis, et occurrat ei ursus; et ingrediatur domum, et innitatur manu sua super parietem, et mordeat eum coluber.
20Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
20Numquid non tenebræ dies Domini, et non lux; et caligo, et non splendor in ea?
21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
21Odi, et projeci festivitates vestras, et non capiam odorem cœtuum vestrorum.
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.
22Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocautomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam; et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.
23Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
23Aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum; et cantica lyræ tuæ non audiam.
24But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
24Et revelabitur quasi aqua judicium, et justitia quasi torrens fortis.
25“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
25Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israël?
26You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
26et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro, et imaginem idolorum vestrorum, sidus dei vestri, quæ fecistis vobis.
27Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Armies.
27Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus: Deus exercituum nomen ejus.]
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