Amos 4
1 You [wealthy women] of Samaria [have grown fat like] [MET] the fat cows of the Bashan [region]. You oppress poor people and you cause needy people to suffer. And you say to your husbands, “Bring us [more wine] to drink!”
Слушайте слово сие, телицы Васанские, которые на горе Самарийской, вы, притесняющие бедных, угнетающие нищих, говорящие господам своим: “подавай, и мы будем пить!”
2 But Yahweh [our] God has said this: “Because I am holy, I solemnly promise this: It will [soon] be the time when you all will be taken [to another country]; [your enemies will take you away as though they are] using sharp hooks [DOU] [to grab you].
Клялся Господь Бог святостью Своею, что вот, придут на вас дни, когда повлекут вас крюками и остальных ваших удами.
3 [Your enemies] will drag you out through breaks/holes [in your city walls], and they will throw you outside the city. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!
И сквозь проломы стен выйдете, каждая, как случится, и бросите все убранство чертогов, говорит Господь.
4 Go to Bethel and Gilgal [towns where many people worship me] and sin more and more [SAR]! [I say that not because I want you to do it], [but because it is what you have always been doing]! Offer sacrifices on the morning [after you arrive], [and bring me] (a tithe/one tenth) of your crops the next day.
Идите в Вефиль - и грешите, в Галгал - и умножайте преступления; приносите жертвы ваши каждое утро, десятины ваши хотя через каждые три дня.
5 Bring offerings of bread to thank me, and [other] offerings that are not required/commanded, and boast about [these offerings that you bring], because that is what you like to do, [but you do it to impress others, not to please me]. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it.
Приносите в жертву благодарения квасное, провозглашайте о добровольных приношениях ваших и разглашайте о них, ибо это вы любите, сыны Израилевы, говорит Господь Бог.
6 I [am the one who] caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns [DOU], but you rejected me in spite of that.
За то и дал Я вам голые зубы во всех городах ваших и недостаток хлеба во всех селениях ваших; но вы не обратились ко Мне, говорит Господь.
7 When it was still three months before [the time of] harvesting [crops], [at the time when your crops needed rain the most], I prevented rain from falling. [Sometimes] I allowed rain to fall on some towns and prevented it from falling on other towns. Rain fell on some fields, but it did not fall on other fields, with the result that [the soil in] those fields [where it did not rain] dried up.
И удерживал от вас дождь за три месяца до жатвы; проливал дождь на один город, а на другой город не проливал дождя; один участок напояем был дождем, а другой, не окропленный дождем, засыхал.
8 People would stagger from one town to another town to find water, but they could not even get enough water to drink, but in spite of that, you have not returned to me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!
И сходились два-три города в один город, чтобы напиться воды, и не могли досыта напиться; но и тогда вы не обратились ко Мне, говорит Господь.
9 I caused your grain fields to dry up; I caused your gardens and vineyards to be struck/destroyed by (blight/hot winds) and mildew. [I sent] locusts to eat [the leaves on] your fig trees and olive trees, but in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!
Я поражал вас ржою и блеклостью хлеба; множество садов ваших, и виноградников ваших, и смоковниц ваших, и маслин ваших пожирала гусеница, - и при всем том вы не обратились ко Мне, говорит Господь.
10 I caused you to experience (plagues/severe sicknesses) like the plagues [that I sent to the people] of Egypt. I caused [many of] your young men to die in battles. I allowed [your enemies] to capture your horses. [Many of your soldiers were killed, ] and I caused your camps to be filled with the smell/stink of their [decaying] corpses. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!
Посылал Я на вас моровую язву, подобную Египетской, убивал мечом юношей ваших, отводя коней в плен, так что смрад от станов ваших поднимался в ноздри ваши; и при всем том вы не обратились ко Мне, говорит Господь.
11 I got rid of many of you, like I got rid of [the people in] Sodom and Gomorrah. [Those of] you who [did not die] were like [SIM] a burning stick that was snatched from a fire [so that it would not burn completely]. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it!
Производил Я среди вас разрушения, как разрушил Бог Содом и Гоморру, и вы были выхвачены, как головня из огня, - и при всем том вы не обратились ко Мне, говорит Господь.
12 So [now], you [people of] Israel, I am going to punish you. Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, [when I judge you]!
Посему так поступлю Я с тобою, Израиль; и как Я так поступлю с тобою, то приготовься к сретению Бога твоего, Израиль,
13 I created the mountains, and [I] created winds. I reveal to humans what I am thinking. I [sometimes] cause the daylight to become dark [like the night]. I [rule over everything]; I [even] walk on the highest mountains on the earth! I am the Commander of the armies of angels!”
ибо вот Он, Который образует горы, и творит ветер, и объявляет человеку намерения его, утренний свет обращает в мрак, и шествует превыше земли; Господь Бог Саваоф - имя Ему.
