アモス書 5
1 イスラエルの家よ我が汝らに對ひて宣る此言を聽け 是は哀歎の歌なり
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
2 處女イスラエルは仆れて復起あがらず彼は己の地に扑倒さる 之を扶け起す者なし
"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."
3 主ヱホバかく言たまふ イスラエルの家においては前に千人出たる邑は只百人のみのこり前に百人出たる邑は只十人のみのこらん
For thus says the LORD: "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."
4 ヱホバかくイスラエルの家に言たまふ 汝ら我を求めよ さらば生べし
For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;
5 ベテルを求むるなかれ ギルガルに往なかれ ベエルシバに赴く勿れ ギルガルは必ず擄へられゆきベテルは無に歸せん
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.
6 汝らヱホバを求めよ 然ば生べし 恐くはヱホバ火のごとくにヨセフの家に落くだりたまひてその火これを焼ん ベテルのためにこれを熄す者一人もあらじ
Seek 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.
7 汝ら公道を茵蔯に變じ正義を地に擲つる者よ
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
8 昴宿および參宿を造り死の蔭を變じて朝となし晝を暗くして夜となし海の水を呼て地の面に溢れさする者を求めよ 其名はヱホバといふ
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, the LORD is his name,
9 彼は滅亡を忽然強者に臨ましむ 滅亡つひに城に臨む
who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
10 彼らは門にありて勸戒る者を惡み正直を言ふ者を忌嫌ふ
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
11 汝らは貧しき者を踐つけ麥の贐物を之より取る この故に汝らは鑿石の家を建しと雖どもその中に住ことあらじ 美しき葡萄園を作りしと雖どもその酒を飮ことあらじ
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.
12 我知る汝らの愆は多く汝らの罪は大なり 汝らは義き者を虐げ賄賂を取り門において貧き者を推抂ぐ
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.
13 是故に今の時は賢き者黙す 是惡き時なればなり
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
14 汝ら善を求めよ 惡を求めざれ 然らば汝ら生べし また汝らが言ごとく萬軍の神ヱホバ汝らと偕に在さん
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you say.
15 汝ら惡を惡み善を愛し門にて公義を立よ 萬軍の神ヱホバあるひはヨセフの遺れる者を憐れみたまはん
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
16 是故に主たる萬軍の神ヱホバかく言たまふ 諸の街衢にて啼ことあらん 諸の大路にて人哀哉哀哉と呼ん 又農夫を呼きたりて哀哭しめ啼女を招きて啼しめん
Therefore thus says the LORD, 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.
17 また諸の葡萄園にも啼こと有べし 其は我汝らの中を通るべければなり ヱホバこれを言たまふ
In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says the LORD.
18 ヱホバの日を望む者は禍なるかな 汝ら何とてヱホバの日を望むや 是は昏くして光なし
"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.
19 人 獅子の前を逃れて熊に遇ひ又家にいりてその手を壁に附て蛇に咬るるに宛も似たり
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.
20 ヱホバの日は昏くして光なく暗にして耀なきに非ずや
Won't the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 我は汝らの節筵を惡みかつ藐視む また汝らの集會を悦ばじ
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
22 汝ら我に燔祭または素祭を獻ぐるとも我之を受納れじ 汝らの肥たる犢の感謝祭は我これを顧みじ
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.
23 汝らの歌の聲を我前に絶て汝らの琴の音は我これを聽じ
Take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 公道を水のごとくに正義をつきざる河のごとくに流れしめよ
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 イスラエルの家よ汝らは四十年荒野に居し間 犠牲と供物を我に獻げたりしや
"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
26 かへつて汝らは汝らの王シクテを負ひ汝らの偶像キウンを負へり 是即ち汝らの神とする星にして汝らの自ら造り設けし者なり
You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship them.
27 然ば我汝らをダマスコの外に移さん 萬軍の神ととなふるヱホバこれを言たまふ
Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
