Amos 5
1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
[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."
Virgo Israël projecta est in terram suam, non est qui suscitet eam.
3 For thus says YHWH: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
Quia 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.
4 For thus says YHWH to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;
Quia hæc dicit Dominus domui Israël: Quærite me, et vivetis.
5 but do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
Et nolite quærere Bethel, et in Galgalam nolite intrare, et in Bersabee non transibitis, quia Galgala captiva ducetur, et Bethel erit inutilis.
6 Seek YHWH, 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.
Quærite Dominum, et vivite (ne forte comburatur ut ignis domus Joseph, et devorabit, et non erit qui extinguat Bethel:
7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
qui convertitis in absinthium judicium, et justitiam in terra relinquitis):
8 seek him who made Kimah and Kesil, 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, YHWH is his name,
facientem 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:
9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta, et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.
11 Forasmuch therefore as 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.
Idcirco, 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.
12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins—you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra, et fortia peccata vestra: hostes justi, accipientes munus, et pauperes deprimentes in porta.
13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacebit, quia tempus malum est.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so YHWH, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you say.
Quærite bonum, et non malum, ut vivatis; et erit Dominus Deus exercituum vobiscum, sicut dixistis.
15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that YHWH, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
Odite malum et diligite bonum, et constituite in porta judicium: si forte misereatur Dominus Deus exercituum reliquiis Joseph.
16 Therefore thus says YHWH, the God of hosts: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas. Alas.' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
Propterea 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.
17 In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says YHWH.
Et in omnibus vineis erit planctus, quia pertransibo in medio tui, dicit Dominus.]
18 "Woe to you who desire the day of YHWH. Why do you long for the day of YHWH? It is darkness, and not light.
[Væ desiderantibus diem Domini! ad quid eam vobis? Dies Domini ista, tenebræ, et non lux.
19 As 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 serpent bit him.
Quomodo si fugiat vir a facie leonis, et occurrat ei ursus; et ingrediatur domum, et innitatur manu sua super parietem, et mordeat eum coluber.
20 Won't the day of YHWH be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Numquid non tenebræ dies Domini, et non lux; et caligo, et non splendor in ea?
21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
Odi, et projeci festivitates vestras, et non capiam odorem cœtuum vestrorum.
22 Yes, 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.
Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocautomata, et munera vestra, non suscipiam; et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum; et cantica lyræ tuæ non audiam.
24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Et 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?
Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israël?
26 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship them.
et portastis tabernaculum Moloch vestro, et imaginem idolorum vestrorum, sidus dei vestri, quæ fecistis vobis.
27 Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon," says YHWH, whose name is the God of hosts.
Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus: Deus exercituum nomen ejus.]
