Amos 2
1 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.
主はこう言われる、「モアブの三つのとが、四つのとがのために、わたしはこれを罰してゆるさない。これは彼がエドムの王の骨を焼いて灰にしたからである。
2 And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:
それゆえ、わたしはモアブに火を送り、ケリオテのもろもろの宮殿を焼き滅ぼす。モアブは騒ぎと、ときの声と、ラッパの音の中に死ぬ。
3 And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.
わたしはそのうちから、支配者を断ち、そのすべてのつかさを彼と共に殺す」と主は言われる。
4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.
主はこう言われる、「ユダの三つのとが、四つのとがのために、わたしはこれを罰してゆるさない。これは彼らが主の律法を捨て、その定めを守らず、その先祖たちが従い歩いた偽りの物に惑わされたからである。
5 And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.
それゆえ、わたしはユダに火を送り、エルサレムのもろもろの宮殿を焼き滅ぼす」。
6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
主はこう言われる、「イスラエルの三つのとが、四つのとがのために、わたしはこれを罰してゆるさない。これは彼らが正しい者を金のために売り、貧しい者をくつ一足のために売るからである。
7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
彼らは弱い者の頭を地のちりに踏みつけ、苦しむ者の道をまげ、また父子ともにひとりの女のところへ行って、わが聖なる名を汚す。
8 By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
彼らはすべての祭壇のかたわらに質に取った衣服を敷いて、その上に伏し、罰金をもって得た酒を、その神の家で飲む。
9 Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.
さきにわたしはアモリびとを彼らの前から滅ぼした。これはその高きこと、香柏のごとく、その強きこと、かしの木のようであったが、わたしはその上の実と、下の根とを滅ぼした。
10 And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.
わたしはまた、あなたがたをエジプトの地から連れ上り、四十年のあいだ荒野で、あなたがたを導き、アモリびとの地を獲させた。
11 And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.
わたしはあなたがたの子らのうちから預言者を起し、あなたがたの若者のうちからナジルびとを起した。イスラエルの人々よ、そうではないか」と主は言われる。
12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
「ところがあなたがたはナジルびとに酒を飲ませ、預言者に命じて『預言するな』と言う。
13 See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.
見よ、わたしは麦束をいっぱい積んだ車が物を圧するように、あなたがたをその所で圧する。
14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:
速く走る者も逃げ場を失い、強い者もその力をふるうことができず、勇士もその命を救うことができない。
15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.
弓をとる者も立つことができず、足早の者も自分を救うことができず、馬に乗る者もその命を救うことができない。
16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.
勇士のうちの雄々しい心の者もその日には裸で逃げる」と主は言われる。
