Amos 5
1 Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
イスラエルの家よ、わたしが悲しみの歌をもって、あなたがたについて宣べるこの言葉を聞け、
2 The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.
「おとめイスラエルは倒れて、また起き上がらず、彼女はおのれの地に投げ倒されてこれを起す者がない」。
3 For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.
主なる神はこう言われる、「イスラエルの家では、千人出た町は百人残り、百人出た町は十人残る」。
4 For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:
主はイスラエルの家にこう言われる、「あなたがたはわたしを求めよ、そして生きよ。
5 Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.
ベテルを求めるな、ギルガルに行くな。ベエルシバにおもむくな。ギルガルは必ず捕えられて行き、ベテルは無に帰するからである」。
6 Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.
あなたがたは主を求めよ、そして生きよ。さもないと主は火のようにヨセフの家に落ち下られる。火はこれを焼くが、ベテルのためにこれを消す者はひとりもない。
7 You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
あなたがた、公道をにがよもぎに変え、正義を地に投げ捨てる者よ。
8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
プレアデスおよびオリオンを造り、暗黒を朝に変じ、昼を暗くして夜となし、海の水を呼んで、地のおもてに注がれる者、その名は主という。
9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.
主は滅びをたちまち強い者に臨ませられるので、滅びはついに城に臨む。
10 They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.
彼らは門にいて戒める者を憎み、真実を語る者を忌みきらう。
11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
あなたがたは貧しい者を踏みつけ、彼から麦の贈り物をとるゆえ、あなたがたは切り石の家を建てても、その中に住むことはできない。美しいぶどう畑を作っても、その酒を飲むことはできない。
12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
わたしは知る、あなたがたのとがは多く、あなたがたの罪は大きいからである。あなたがたは正しい者をしえたげ、まいないを取り、門で貧しい者を退ける。
13 So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.
それゆえ、このような時には賢い者は沈黙する、これは悪い時だからである。
14 Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.
善を求めよ、悪を求めるな。そうすればあなたがたは生きることができる。またあなたがたが言うように、万軍の神、主はあなたがたと共におられる。
15 Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.
悪を憎み、善を愛し、門で公義を立てよ。万軍の神、主は、あるいはヨセフの残りの者をあわれまれるであろう。
16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.
それゆえ、主なる万軍の神、主はこう言われる、「すべての広場で泣くことがあろう。すべてのちまたで人々は『悲しいかな、悲しいかな』と言う。また彼らは農夫を呼んできて嘆かせ、巧みな泣き女を招いて泣かせ、
17 In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.
またすべてのぶどう畑にも泣くことがあろう。それはわたしがあなたがたの中を通るからである」と主は言われる。
18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.
わざわいなるかな、主の日を望む者よ、あなたがたは何ゆえ主の日を望むのか。これは暗くて光がない。
19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
人がししの前を逃れてもくまに出会い、また家にはいって、手を壁につけると、へびにかまれるようなものである。
20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
主の日は暗くて、光がなく、薄暗くて輝きがないではないか。
21 Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
わたしはあなたがたの祭を憎み、かつ卑しめる。わたしはまた、あなたがたの聖会を喜ばない。
22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
たといあなたがたは燔祭や素祭をささげても、わたしはこれを受けいれない。あなたがたの肥えた獣の酬恩祭はわたしはこれを顧みない。
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
あなたがたの歌の騒がしい音をわたしの前から断て。あなたがたの琴の音は、わたしはこれを聞かない。
24 But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
公道を水のように、正義をつきない川のように流れさせよ。
25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
「イスラエルの家よ、あなたがたは四十年の間、荒野でわたしに犠牲と供え物をささげたか。
26 Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
かえってあなたがたの王シクテをにない、あなたがたが自分で作ったあなたがたの偶像、星の神、キウンをになった。
27 And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
それゆえわたしはあなたがたをダマスコのかなたに捕え移す」と、その名を万軍の神ととなえられる主は言われる。
