Amos 7

1 Aku mendapat suatu penglihatan dari TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi. Aku melihat Ia menciptakan suatu kawanan besar belalang pada waktu orang selesai memotong rumput untuk raja, dan rumput baru mulai tumbuh lagi.

Yahweh our God showed me [in a vision] that he was going to send locusts [to destroy our crops]. It was going to happen right after the king’s share of the hay had been harvested/cut and before the rest of the hay was ready to be harvested.

2 Belalang-belalang itu hampir memakan habis semua tumbuh-tumbuhan di tanah. Lalu aku berkata, "TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi, ampunilah umat-Mu! Mereka terlalu kecil dan lemah, bagaimana mungkin mereka bertahan?"

[And in the vision I saw] those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, “Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israeli people are very helpless; (how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?/we will not be able to survive!)”

3 TUHAN mengubah rencana-Nya dan berkata, "Yang kaulihat itu tidak akan terjadi."

So Yahweh changed his mind and said, “That will not happen.”

4 Aku mendapat suatu penglihatan lagi dari TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi. Aku melihat Ia sedang bersiap-siap untuk menghukum umat-Nya dengan api. Api itu menjilat habis samudra di bawah bumi dan mulai menghanguskan ladang.

Then this is what Yahweh our Lord showed me [in another vision]: He was calling to a fire to [come and] punish [his people]. [In the vision I saw that] the fire dried up the ocean and also burned [everything on] the land.

5 Aku berkata, "Ya TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi, hentikanlah kiranya api itu! Umat-Mu begitu kecil dan lemah, bagaimana mungkin mereka bertahan?"

Then I cried out again, “Yahweh our Lord, I plead with you, please stop this! We Israeli people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?”

6 TUHAN mengubah rencana-Nya lagi dan berkata, "Ini pun tidak akan terjadi."

So Yahweh changed his mind again, and said, “That also will not happen.”

7 Aku mendapat suatu penglihatan lain dari TUHAN. Kulihat Ia berdiri di samping sebuah tembok yang dibangun dengan menggunakan tali pengukur tegak lurus. Di tangan-Nya Ia memegang tali pengukur itu untuk melihat apakah tembok itu tegak lurus atau tidak.

Then Yahweh showed me [another vision]. I saw him standing beside a wall. [It was very straight because] it had been built using a (plumb line/cord with a weight on one end to determine if walls are vertically straight). Yahweh had the plumb line in his hand.

8 Ia bertanya kepadaku, "Kau melihat apa, Amos?" Aku menjawab, "Tali pengukur tegak lurus, TUHAN." Lalu TUHAN berkata, "Aku memakai tali pengukur ini untuk menunjukkan bahwa umat-Ku seperti tembok yang tidak lurus. Aku tak akan mengubah rencana-Ku lagi, Aku pasti akan menghukum mereka.

Yahweh asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then Yahweh said, “Look, I am going to use a plumb line among my Israeli people, [to show that they are like a wall that is not straight]. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.

9 Tempat-tempat yang dipakai oleh keturunan Ishak untuk beribadat akan dihancurkan. Tempat-tempat suci orang Israel akan diruntuhkan. Aku akan memusnahkan keturunan Raja Yerobeam."

The places on hills where [the descendants of] [MTY] Isaac worship [idols] will be destroyed. And the other important shrines in Israel will also be destroyed. And I will enable [your enemies] to attack your people with swords and they will get rid of [King] Jeroboam and all his descendants.”

10 Amazia, imam di Betel, mengirim laporan ini kepada Yerobeam raja Israel, "Amos sedang berkomplot dengan rakyat melawan Baginda. Kata-katanya yang manghasut rakyat akan menyebabkan negeri ini hancur.

Then Amaziah, the priest at Bethel, sent [a message] to Jeroboam, the King of Israel. In the message he said, “Amos is plotting against you among the Israeli people [MTY]. [I am worried that] the people of this country will not be able to refute his words.

11 Ia berkata bahwa Baginda akan mati dalam pertempuran, dan orang Israel pasti diangkut ke pembuangan, jauh dari negerinya sendiri."

This is what he is saying: ‘Jeroboam will soon be killed by [someone using] a sword, and the people of Israel will be (exiled/forced to leave their land and go to another country).’”

12 Lalu Amazia berkata kepada Amos, "Hai nabi, pulanglah ke Yehuda! Berkhotbalah di sana. Biarlah mereka yang memberi nafkah kepadamu!

Then Amaziah [came to me and] said, “You prophet, get out of here! Go back to the country of Judah! Earn money to [buy food to be able] to live there, and do your prophesying there!

13 Jangan lagi berkhotbah di Betel. Kota ini khusus untuk raja, dan tempat ibadah nasional."

Do not prophesy any more here at Bethel, because this is where the national temple, the king’s temple, is!”

14 Amos menjawab, "Aku bukan nabi karena jabatan. Sebenarnya aku peternak dan pemetik buah ara.

I replied to Amaziah, “I was [previously] not a prophet, and my father was not a prophet; I was a shepherd. I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.

15 Tapi TUHAN mengambil aku dari pekerjaanku, dan menyuruh aku menyampaikan pesan-Nya kepada orang Israel.

But Yahweh took me away from taking care of my sheep, and he said to me, ‘Go to Israel and prophesy to my people there!’

16 Maka itu dengarlah apa yang dikatakan TUHAN kepadamu. Karena engkau melarang aku berkhotbah menentang bangsa Israel.

You said to me, ‘Do not prophecy saying terrible things will happen to [the people of] Israel; stop saying those things!’

17 TUHAN berkata bahwa istrimu akan menjadi pelacur di jalan-jalan kota, dan anak-anakmu dibunuh dalam perang. Tanahmu akan dibagi-bagi kepada orang lain, dan engkau sendiri akan mati di negeri orang yang tidak mengenal TUHAN. Penduduk Israel pasti akan diangkut ke pembuangan, jauh dari negerinya sendiri."

Therefore listen to what Yahweh says about you: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons and daughters will be killed by [your enemies’] swords. Others will measure your land and divide it up [among themselves]; and you yourself will die in a foreign country. And the people of Israel will certainly be forced to leave their country and go (into exile/to live in another country).’”