Amos Propheta 2

1 Hæc dicit Dominus: Super tribus sceleribus Moab, et super quattuor non convertam eum: eo quod incenderit ossa regis Idumææ usque ad cinerem.

Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

2 Et mittam ignem in Moab, et devorabit ædes Carioth: et morietur in sonitu Moab, in clangore tubæ:

But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

3 et disperdam iudicem de medio eius, et omnes principes eius interficiam cum eo, dicit Dominus.

And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will kill all the rulers of it with him, says Jehovah.

4 Hæc dicit Dominus: Super tribus sceleribus Iuda, et super quattuor non convertam eum: eo quod abiecerit legem Domini, et mandata eius non custodierit: deceperant enim eos idola sua, post quæ abierant patres eorum.

Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, according to which their fathers walked.

5 Et mittam ignem in Iuda, et devorabit ædes Ierusalem.

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

6 Hæc dicit Dominus: Super tribus sceleribus Israel, et super quattuor non convertam eum: pro eo quod vendiderit pro argento iustum, et pauperem pro calceamentis.

Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes-

7 Qui conterunt super pulverem terræ capita pauperum, et viam humilium declinant: et filius ac pater eius ierunt ad puellam, ut violarent nomen sanctum meum.

those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the same maiden, to profane my holy name.

8 Et super vestimentis pignoratis accubuerunt iuxta omne altare: et vinum damnatorum bibebant in domo Dei sui.

And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge. And in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

9 Ego autem exterminavi Amorrhæum a facie eorum: cuius altitudo, cedrorum altitudo eius, et fortis ipse quasi quercus: et contrivi fructum eius desuper, et radices eius subter.

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

10 Ego sum, qui ascendere vos feci de Terra Ægypti, et duxi vos in deserto quadraginta annis ut possideretis terram Amorrhæi.

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

11 Et suscitavi de filiis vestris in prophetas, et de iuvenibus vestris Nazaræos: numquid non ita est filii Israel, dicit Dominus?

And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? says Jehovah.

12 Et propinabitis Nazaræis vinum: et prophetis mandabitis, dicentes: Ne prophetetis.

But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not Prophesy.

13 Ecce ego stridebo subter vos, sicut stridet plaustrum onustum fœno.

Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves.

14 Et peribit fuga a veloce, et fortis non obtinebit virtutem suam, et robustus non salvabit animam suam:

And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, nor shall the mighty deliver himself.

15 et tenens arcum non stabit, et velox pedibus suis non salvabitur, et ascensor equi non salvabit animam suam:

Neither shall he stand who handles the bow. And he who is swift of foot shall not deliver himself, nor shall he who rides the horse deliver himself.

16 et robustus corde inter fortes nudus fugiet in illa die, dicit Dominus.

And he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says Jehovah.