Amós 6— comparação

1Ai dos que vivem tranquilos em Sião,

2Vão a Calné, e vejam.

3Ai de vocês que afastam o dia mau,

4que se deitam em camas de marfim,

5que dedilham as cordas da harpa,

6que bebem vinho em bacias,

7Portanto, agora eles irão cativos com os primeiros que forem levados cativos.

8“O Senhor DEUS jurou por si mesmo”, diz o SENHOR, o Deus dos Exércitos:

9Acontecerá que, se restarem dez homens em uma única casa,

10“Quando o parente de um homem o carregar, aquele mesmo que o queima, para tirar os corpos de dentro da casa, e perguntar àquele que está no interior da casa: 'Ainda há alguém com você?' E ele disser: 'Não'; então ele dirá: 'Cale-se! Pois não devemos mencionar o nome do SENHOR.'

11“Pois, eis que o SENHOR ordena, e a casa grande será despedaçada,

12Acaso correm os cavalos sobre os rochedos?

13vocês que se alegram com uma coisa de nada, que dizem:

14Pois, eis que levantarei contra vocês uma nação, ó casa de Israel”,

1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

2Go to Calneh, and see. From there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Is their border greater than your border?

3Alas for you who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,

4who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall,

5who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

6who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

7Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive. The feasting and lounging will end.

8“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

9It will happen that if ten men remain in one house, they will die.

10“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

11“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

13you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

14For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies; “and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”