Amos 2

1 यहोवा यों कहता है, मोआब के तीन क्या, वरन चार अपराधों के कारण, मैं उसका दण्ड न छोडूंगा; क्योंकि उसने एदोम के राजा की हड्डियों को जला कर चूना कर दिया।

2 इसलिये मैं मोआब में आग लगाऊंगा, और उस से करिय्योत के भवन भस्म हो जाएंगे; और मोआब हुल्लड़ और ललकार, और नरसिंगे के शब्द होते-होते मर जाएगा।

3 मैं उसके बीच में से न्यायी को नाश करूंगा, और साथ ही साथ उसके सब हाकिमों को भी घात करूंगा, यहोवा का यही वचन है॥

4 यहोवा यों कहता है, यहूदा के तीन क्या, वरन चार अपराधों के कारण, मैं उसका दण्ड न छोडूंगा; क्योंकि उनहोंने यहोवा की व्यवस्था को तुच्छ जाना और मेरी विधियों को नहीं माना; और अपने झूठे देवताओं के कारण जिनके पीछे उनके पुरखा चलते थे, वे भी भटक गए हैं।

5 इसलिये मैं यहूदा में आग लगाऊंगा, और उस से यरूशलेम के भवन भस्म हो जाएंगे॥

6 यहोवा यों कहता है, इस्राएल के तीन क्या, वरन चार अपराधों के कारण, मैं उसका दण्ड न छोडूंगा; क्योंकि उन्होंने निर्दोष को रूपये के लिये और दरिद्र को एक जोड़ी जूतियों के लिये बेच डाला है।

7 वे कंगालों के सिर पर की धूलि का भी लालच करते, और नम्र लोगों को मार्ग से हटा देते हैं; और बाप-बेटा दोनों एक ही कुमारी के पास जाते हैं, जिस से मेरे पवित्र नाम को अपवित्र ठहराएं।

8 वे हर एक वेदी के पास बन्धक के वस्त्रों पर सोते हैं, और दण्ड के रूपये से मोल लिया हुआ दाखमधु अपने देवता के घर में पी लेते हैं॥

9 मैं ने उनके साम्हने से एमोरियों को नाश किया था, जिनकी लम्बाई देवदारों की सी, और जिनका बल बांज वृक्षों का सा था; तौभी मैं ने ऊपर से उसके फल, और नीचे से उसकी जड़ नाश की।

10 और मैं तुम को मिस्र देश से निकाल लाया, और जंगल में चालीस वर्ष तक लिए फिरता रहा, कि तुम एमोरियों के देश के अधिकारी हो जाओ।

11 और मैं ने तुम्हारे पुत्रों में से नबी होने के लिये और तुम्हारे कुछ जवानों में से नाजीर होने के लिये ठहराया। हे इस्राएलियो, क्या यह सब सच नहीं है? यहोवा की यही वाणी है।

12 परन्तु तुम ने नाजीरों को दाखमधु पिलाया, और नबियों को आज्ञा दी कि भविष्यद्ववाणी न करें॥

13 देखो, मैं तुम को ऐसा दबाऊंगा, जैसी पूलों से भरी हुई गाड़ी नीचे को दबाई जाती है।

14 इसलिये वेग दौड़ने वाले को भाग जाने का स्थान न मिलेगा, और सामर्थी का सामर्थ कुछ काम न देगा; और न पराक्रमी अपना प्राण बचा सकेगा;

15 धनुर्धारी खड़ा न रह सकेगा, और फुर्ती से दौड़ने वाला न बचेगा; सवार भी अपना प्राण न बचा सकेगा;

16 और शूरवीरों में जो अधिक वीर हो, वह भी उस दिन नंगा हो कर भाग जाएगा, यहोवा की यही वाणी है॥

1 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

2 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 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

4 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

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

6 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

7 That 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 will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

9 Yet destroyed I 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 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.

12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

0 A Psalm of David.

1 Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.

6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.

7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

22 This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

24 Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.