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Amos
Chapter 3

1 Hear this word, O men of Israel, that the LORD pronounces over you, over the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:

以色列子民！你们应听从上主关于你们，即关于我由埃及国领出来的全体民族所说的话：“

2 ¹ You alone have I favored, more than all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your crimes.

由世界上一切种族中，我只选择了你们，为此，我必惩罚你们的罪恶。

3 Do two walk together unless they have agreed?

二人除非预约，岂能同行。

4 Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from its den unless it has seized something?

狮子若无猎物，岂能在林中咆哮？幼狮除非捕到食物，岂能在洞中吼叫？

5 Is a bird brought to earth by a snare when there is no lure for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground without catching anything?

雀鸟若无饵食，岂能落在地上？机槛若无所获，岂能由地上翻起？

6 ² If the trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not be frightened? If evil befalls a city, has not the LORD caused it?

如在城中吹起号角，人民岂不恐怖？如城里发生灾祸，岂不是上主所为？

7 Indeed, the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants, the prophets.

的确，吾主上主若不先将自己的计划启示给自己的先知，什么也不作。

8 The lion roars-- who will not be afraid! The Lord GOD speaks-- who will not prophesy!

狮子咆哮了，谁不害怕？吾主上主发了言，谁能不传他的话？”

9 ³ Proclaim this in the castles of Ashdod, in the castles of the land of Egypt: "Gather about the mountain of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, the oppression in her midst."

“你们要在亚述和埃及的宫殿高处宣布说：你们应聚集在撒玛黎雅山上，观看那里的混乱和其中的残暴。

10 For they know not how to do what is right, says the LORD, Storing up in their castles what they have extorted and robbed.

他们不知行正直的事──上主的断语──只知在宫殿内积累强暴和欺压。

11 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: An enemy shall surround the land, and strip you of your strength, and pillage your castles,

因此，吾主上主这样说：“敌人要围困此地，推翻你的堡垒，抢掠你的宫殿。

12 Thus says the LORD: As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion a pair of legs or the tip of an ear of his sheep, So the Israelites who dwell in Samaria shall escape with the corner of a couch or a piece of a cot.

上主这样说：牧人怎样从样由狮子口中抢救出两条羊腿，或一块羊耳，以色列子民，即在撒玛利亚斜倚在安乐椅角上，或大马士革榻上的人，也要怎样被救出。

13 Hear and bear witness against the house of Jacob, says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts:

你们静听，并对雅各伯家作证──吾主上主万军的天主的断语──

14 On the day when I punish Israel for his crimes, I will visit also the altars of Bethel: The horns of the altar shall be broken off and fall to the ground.

在我惩罚以色列罪恶之日，我必毁坏贝特耳的祭坛，祭坛的角必被打落在地上。

15 ⁴ Then will I strike the winter house and the summer house; The ivory apartments shall be ruined, and their many rooms shall be no more, says the LORD.

我要破坏过冬和过夏的别墅，象牙宫也必遭毁坏，高楼大厦也必荡然无存”──上主的断语。

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Footnotes(注解)

¹ [2] God's choice of Israel brought its own responsibility.

² [6] The sufferings which sinful man experiences through the permissive will of God are presented here, as elsewhere in the Old Testament, simply as caused by the Lord.

³ [9] Israel's southern neighbors, beyond Judah, are invited by the prophetic orator to witness the moral disorders of God's people.

⁴ [15] Ivory apartments: rooms containing furniture inlaid in ivory, similar to the pieces discovered in the excavations at Samaria.