阿摩司書

第8章

1 主耶和華又指示我一件事:我看見一籃夏天的果子。

2 他說:「阿摩司啊,你看見甚麼?」我說:「看見一籃夏天的果子。」耶和華說:「我民以色列的結局到了,我必不再寬恕他們。」

3 主耶和華說:「那日,殿中的詩歌變為哀號。必有許多屍首在各處拋棄;拋屍首的必不作聲[they shall cast them forth with silence]。」

4 你們這些吞吃[swallow up]窮乏人、使境內[of the land]困苦人衰敗的[O],當聽我的話,

5 你們說:月朔幾時過去,使[that]我們好賣[corn][When]?安息日幾時過去,使[that]我們好擺開麥子,將伊法做小一點[making the ephah small]舍客勒做大一些[and the shekel great],用詭詐的天平欺哄人?

6 好用銀子買貧寒人,用一雙鞋換窮乏人,將壞了的麥子賣給人[may]

7 耶和華指著雅各的榮耀起誓說:他們的一切行為,我必永遠不忘。

8 地豈不因這事顫動[tremble]?其上的居民不也悲哀嗎?地必全然漲起好像洪水[rise up wholly as a flood]如被埃及洪水沖去淹沒[cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt]

9 主耶和華說:到那日,我必使日頭在午間落下,使地在白晝黑暗。

10 我必使你們的節期變為悲哀,歌曲變為哀歌。眾人腰束麻布,頭上光禿,使這場悲哀如喪獨生子,至終如痛苦的日子一樣。

11 主耶和華說:看哪[Behold],日子將到,我必命饑荒降在地上。人飢餓非因無餅,乾渴非因無水,乃因不聽耶和華的話。

12 他們必飄流,從這海到那海,從北邊到東邊,往來奔跑,尋求耶和華的話,卻尋不著。

13 當那日,美貌的處女和少年的男子必因乾渴發昏。

14 那些[They that]指著撒瑪利亞的[sin]起誓的說:但哪,我們指著你的神[Thy god]起誓;又說:我們指著別.是巴的風俗[manner]起誓;這些人都必仆倒,永不再起來。

Amos

Chapter 8

1 THUS has the LORD God showed me: and behold, a sign of the end.

2 And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A sign of the end. Then the LORD said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again cause it to pass by them any more.

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howling in that day, says the LORD God; there shall be many dead bodies in every place; and they shall be cast away to destruction.

4 Hear this, O you who wrong the poor, and cause the needy of the land to come to an end,

5 Saying, When will the month be over, that we may sell grain? When will the sabbath be over that we may open storehouses and make our measures small and enlarge weights and make deceitful balances?

6 That we may sell to the poor for silver, and pay the needy with the refuse of the wheat, and sell the refuse which is left on the floor of the storehouses.

7 The LORD, the Mighty One of Jacob, has sworn, Surely, I will never forget any of their works.

8 Shall not the land tremble for these things, and every one mourn who dwells in it? The end shall come up like a flooded river; and it shall cast things away, and then recede like the river of Egypt.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daylight.

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will put sackcloth upon all your loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the LORD;

12 And they shall gather together from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

14 They that swore by the idols of Samaria, saying, As your god lives, O Dan, and, as the cult of Beer-sheba lives, even they shall fall and never rise again.

阿摩司書

第8章

Amos

Chapter 8

1 主耶和華又指示我一件事:我看見一籃夏天的果子。

1 THUS has the LORD God showed me: and behold, a sign of the end.

2 他說:「阿摩司啊,你看見甚麼?」我說:「看見一籃夏天的果子。」耶和華說:「我民以色列的結局到了,我必不再寬恕他們。」

2 And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A sign of the end. Then the LORD said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again cause it to pass by them any more.

3 主耶和華說:「那日,殿中的詩歌變為哀號。必有許多屍首在各處拋棄;拋屍首的必不作聲[they shall cast them forth with silence]。」

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howling in that day, says the LORD God; there shall be many dead bodies in every place; and they shall be cast away to destruction.

4 你們這些吞吃[swallow up]窮乏人、使境內[of the land]困苦人衰敗的[O],當聽我的話,

4 Hear this, O you who wrong the poor, and cause the needy of the land to come to an end,

5 你們說:月朔幾時過去,使[that]我們好賣[corn][When]?安息日幾時過去,使[that]我們好擺開麥子,將伊法做小一點[making the ephah small]舍客勒做大一些[and the shekel great],用詭詐的天平欺哄人?

5 Saying, When will the month be over, that we may sell grain? When will the sabbath be over that we may open storehouses and make our measures small and enlarge weights and make deceitful balances?

6 好用銀子買貧寒人,用一雙鞋換窮乏人,將壞了的麥子賣給人[may]

6 That we may sell to the poor for silver, and pay the needy with the refuse of the wheat, and sell the refuse which is left on the floor of the storehouses.

7 耶和華指著雅各的榮耀起誓說:他們的一切行為,我必永遠不忘。

7 The LORD, the Mighty One of Jacob, has sworn, Surely, I will never forget any of their works.

8 地豈不因這事顫動[tremble]?其上的居民不也悲哀嗎?地必全然漲起好像洪水[rise up wholly as a flood]如被埃及洪水沖去淹沒[cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt]

8 Shall not the land tremble for these things, and every one mourn who dwells in it? The end shall come up like a flooded river; and it shall cast things away, and then recede like the river of Egypt.

9 主耶和華說:到那日,我必使日頭在午間落下,使地在白晝黑暗。

9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daylight.

10 我必使你們的節期變為悲哀,歌曲變為哀歌。眾人腰束麻布,頭上光禿,使這場悲哀如喪獨生子,至終如痛苦的日子一樣。

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will put sackcloth upon all your loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day.

11 主耶和華說:看哪[Behold],日子將到,我必命饑荒降在地上。人飢餓非因無餅,乾渴非因無水,乃因不聽耶和華的話。

11 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the LORD;

12 他們必飄流,從這海到那海,從北邊到東邊,往來奔跑,尋求耶和華的話,卻尋不著。

12 And they shall gather together from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

13 當那日,美貌的處女和少年的男子必因乾渴發昏。

13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

14 那些[They that]指著撒瑪利亞的[sin]起誓的說:但哪,我們指著你的神[Thy god]起誓;又說:我們指著別.是巴的風俗[manner]起誓;這些人都必仆倒,永不再起來。

14 They that swore by the idols of Samaria, saying, As your god lives, O Dan, and, as the cult of Beer-sheba lives, even they shall fall and never rise again.