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Amos 1 1 2 Woe to the complacent in 那些安身熙雍，自恃撒玛黎雅山，自命为诸民之首，为以色列家所归之人，是有祸的！ 2 Pass over to Calneh and see, go from there to Hamath the great, and down to 你们去加耳乃观察一下，从那里到大哈玛特，然后下到培肋舍特人的加特，看你们是否比这些国更好？或者你们的疆域比他们的更广大， 3 You would put off the evil day, yet you hasten the reign of violence! 那些想避开凶日的，却接近了残暴。 4 Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, They eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall! 他们躺在象牙床上，棋横卧在软榻上，吃着羊群中的羔羊和牛栏中的牛犊， 5 Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment. 伴着琴声吟咏，自比达味，发明乐器， 6 They drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph! 大碗喝酒，以上等的油抹身，但对若瑟的崩溃，却漠不关心。 7 Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and their wanton revelry shall be done away with. 为此，这些人现在就要先被掳去；放荡不羁者的狂欢，也就完了。 8 The Lord GOD has sworn by his very self, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his castles, and I give over the city with everything in it; 吾主上主指着自己起誓──上主万军的天主的断语──我厌恶雅各伯的骄傲，痛恨他的宫殿；我必将城和城中所有的一切交出。 9 Should there remain ten men in a single house, these shall die. 倘若在一家中留下了十个人，也必死尽。 10 Only a few shall be left to carry the dead out of the houses; If one says to a man inside a house, ＂Is anyone with you?＂ and he answers, ＂No one,＂ Then he shall say, ＂Silence!＂ for no one must mention the name of the LORD. 幸免的少数亲友，由屋内抬出他们的骨骸，问那内室深处的人说：＂还有人同你在一起吗？＂他必说：＂没有了。＂继而说：＂不要做声，千万不要提上主的名字！＂ 11 Indeed, the LORD has given the command to shatter the great house to bits, and reduce the small house to rubble. 看，上主一下令，高楼大厦顿成瓦砾，矮小平房荡然无存。 12 3 Can horses run across a cliff? or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of justice into wormwood. 马岂能在悬崖上奔驰，牛岂能在海上耕作？你们竟将公道变为毒药,将正义之果变为苦药！ 13 4 You rejoice in Lodebar, and say, ＂Have we not, by our own strength, seized for ourselves Karnaim?＂ 14 5 Beware, I am raising up against you, O house of Israel, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts, A nation that shall oppress you from Labo of Hamath even to the Wadi Arabah. 然而，以色列家！看，我必要唤起一个民族来攻打你们，──上主万军的天主的断语──从哈玛特关口蹂躏你们直到阿辣巴河。 Footnotes(注解) 1 [1-7] The luxury of the people in 2 [1] The complacent in 3 [12] Can horses . . . oxen?: one cannot change the course of nature, as the Israelites attempted to do by their sins of injustice. 4 [13] Lodebar . . . Karnaim: in 5 [14] A nation: |
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