Amos 5 (NAV) · Opened

1اسْمَعُوا هَذِهِ الْمَرْثِيَّةَ الَّتِي أَرْثِيكُمْ بِها يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

2قَدْ سَقَطَتْ عَذْرَاءُ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَلَنْ تَنْهَضَ بَعْدُ. صَارَتْ طَرِيحَةً عَلَى أَرْضِهَا وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُقِيمُهَا.“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

3لأَنَّهُ هَكَذَا يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ: إِنَّ الْمَدِينَةَ الَّتِي قَدَّمَتْ أَلْفاً مِنْ رِجَالِهَا لِلْحَرْبِ، لَا يَبْقَى لَهَا مِنْهُمْ سِوَى مِئَةٍ. وَالَّتِي قَدَّمَتْ مِئَةً مِنْهُمْ لِلْحَرْبِ لَا يَبْقَى لِبَيْتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْهُمْ سِوَى عَشَرَةٍ.This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

4لأَنَّ هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ لِبَيْتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ: الْتَمِسُونِي فَتَحْيَوْا.For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

5لَا تَسْعَوْا وَرَاءَ بَيْتِ إِيلَ، وَلا تَدْخُلُوا الْجِلْجَالَ، وَلا تَعْبُرُوا إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ، لأَنَّ أَهْلَ الْجِلْجَالِ لابُدَّ أَنْ يَتِمَّ سَبْيُهُمْ، وَبَيْتَ إِيلَ تُصْبِحُ عَدَماً.Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

6الْتَمِسُوا الرَّبَّ فَتَحيَوْا لِئَلّا يَنْدَلِعَ كَنَارٍ تُحْرِقُ بَيْتَ يُوسُفَ وَتَلْتَهِمُ بَيْتَ إِيلَ، وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُطْفِئُ.Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

7إِنَّكُمْ تُحَوِّلُونَ الْعَدْلَ مَرَارَةً، وَتَطْرَحُونَ الْحَقَّ إِلَى الأَرْضِ.There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

8إِنَّهُ هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الثُّرَيَّا وَالْجَبَّارَ، وَيُحَوِّلُ دَيَاجِيرَ الظُّلْمَةِ إِلَى نَهَارٍ، وَالنَّهَارَ إِلَى لَيْلٍ، وَيَسْتَدْعِي مِيَاهَ الْبَحْرِ وَيُفِيضُهَا عَلَى وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ، الرَّبُّ اسْمُهُ.He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

9الَّذِي يُنْزِلُ الْخَرَابَ بِالْقَوِيِّ، فَيَعْصِفُ الدَّمَارُ بِالْحُصُونِ.He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

10قَدْ أَبْغَضُوا مَنْ يُنَدِّدُ بِالْجَوْرِ فِي سَاحَةِ الْقَضَاءِ، وَيَكْرَهُونَ مَنْ يَنْطِقُ بِالْحَقِّ.There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

11فَلأَنَّكُمْ تَطَأُونَ الْمِسْكِينَ وَتَبْتَزُّونَ مِنْهُ رِشْوَةَ قَمْحٍ حَتَّى تُشَيِّدُوا بُيُوتاً مِنْ حِجَارَةٍ مَنْحُوتَةٍ، فَإِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَسْكُنُوا فِيهَا، وَتَغْرِسُوا كُرُوماً شَهِيَّةً وَلَكِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَشْرَبُوا مِنْ خَمْرِهَا.Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

12لأَنَّنِي عَالِمٌ بِكَثْرَةِ مَعَاصِيكُمْ وَعِظَمِ خَطَايَاكُمْ، إِذْ إِنَّكُمْ تُضَايِقُونَ الْبَارَّ أَيُّهَا الْمُرْتَشُونَ الَّذِينَ تَصُدُّونَ الْمِسْكِينَ عَنْ حَقِّهِ فِي سَاحَةِ الْقَضَاءِ.For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

13لِهَذَا يَصْمُتُ الْعَاقِلُ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الزَّمَانِ الرَّدِيءِ.Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

14اطْلُبُوا الْخَيْرَ لَا الشَّرَّ لِتَحْيَوْا، فَيَكُونَ الرَّبُّ الإِلَهُ الْقَدِيرُ مَعَكُمْ كَمَا تَقُولُونَ.Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

15امْقُتُوا الشَّرَّ وَأَحِبُّوا الْخَيْرَ وَأَقِيمُوا الْعَدْلَ فِي سَاحَةِ الْقَضَاءِ، لَعَلَّ الرَّبَّ الإِلَهَ الْقَدِيرَ يَتَرَفَّقُ عَلَى بَقِيَّةِ بَيْتِ يُوسُفَ.Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

16لِذَلِكَ، هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ الإِلَهُ الْقَدِيرُ، سَيَمْلأُ النَّحِيبُ أَرْجَاءَ السَّاحَاتِ، وَيَرْتَفِعُ عَوِيلُهُمْ فِي الشَّوَارِعِ قَائِلِينَ: آهِ! آهِ! وَيَدْعُونَ الْفَلاحِينَ إِلَى الْبُكَاءِ، وَالنَّادِبَاتِ إِلَى الرِّثَاءِ،Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

17وَتَعْلُو الْوَلْوَلَةُ فِي جَوَانِبِ الْكُرُومِ، لأَنِّي سَأَجْتَازُ مُنْتَقِماً فِي وَسَطِكُمْ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

18وَيْلٌ للَّذِينَ يَتَشَوَّقُونَ لِيَوْمِ الرَّبِّ. لِمَاذَا تَطْلُبُونَ مَجِيءَ يَوْمِ الرَّبِّ؟ فَيَوْمُ الرَّبِّ هُوَ ظُلْمَةٌ لَا نُورٌ.Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

19فَتَكُونُونَ كَرَجُلٍ هَرَبَ مِنْ وَجْهِ أَسَدٍ فَلَقِيَهُ دُبٌّ، أَوْ كَمَنْ دَخَلَ إِلَى بَيْتٍ وَاتَّكَأَ بِيَدِهِ عَلَى حَائِطٍ فَلَدَغَتْهُ أَفْعَى.It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

20أَوَ لَيْسَ يَوْمُ الرَّبِّ ظُلْمَةً لَا نُوراً، وَقَتَاماً خَالِياً مِنَ الضِّيَاءِ؟Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

21إِنِّي أَمْقُتُ أَعْيَادَكُمْ وَأَحْتَقِرُهَا، وَلا أُسَرُّ بِاحْتِفَالاتِكُمْ.“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

22وَمَعَ أَنَّكُمْ تُقَرِّبُونَ لِي ذَبَائِحَ مُحْرَقَاتِكُمْ وَتَقْدِمَاتِكُمْ مِنَ الدَّقِيقِ، فَإِنِّي لَا أَقْبَلُهَا وَلا أَلْتَفِتُ إِلَى ذَبَائِحِ السَّلامِ مِنْ مُسَمَّنَاتِ مَوَاشِيكُمْ.Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

23أَبْعِدُوا عَنِّي جَلَبَةَ أَغَانِيكُمْ لأَنِّي لَنْ أَصْغِيَ إِلَى نَغَمَاتِ رَبَابَاتِكُمْ.Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24إِنَّمَا لِيَجْرِ الْحَقُّ مُتَدَفِّقاً كَالْمِيَاهِ وَالْعَدْلُ كَنَهْرٍ سَيَّالٍ.But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25هَلْ قَرَّبْتُمْ لِي ذَبَائِحَ وَتَقْدِمَاتٍ طَوَالَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ، يَا بَيْتَ إِسْرَائِيلَ؟Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

26بَلْ إِنَّ الْمَلِكَ الَّذِي حَمَلْتُمْ خَيْمَتَهُ وَنَصْبَ تَمَاثِيلِهِ لَمْ يَكُنْ سِوَى نَجْمٍ صَنَعْتُمُوهُ لأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَعَبَدْتُمُوهُ كَإِلَهٍ.You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

27لِذَلِكَ أَسْبِيكُمْ إِلَى مَا وَرَاءَ دِمَشْقَ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الَّذِي اسْمُهُ الإِلَهُ الْقَدِيرُ.Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

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