Amós 5

1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:

2 "The virgin of Israel has fallen;

She shall rise no more.

She is cast down on her land;

there is no one to raise her up."

3 For the Lord Yahweh says:

"The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,

and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

4 For Yahweh says to the house of Israel:

"Seek me, and you will live;

5 but don’t seek Bethel,

nor enter into Gilgal,

and don’t pass to Beersheba;

for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,

and Bethel shall come to nothing.

6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live,

lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,

and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

7 You who turn justice to wormwood,

and cast down righteousness to the earth!

8 Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,

and turns the shadow of death into the morning,

and makes the day dark with night;

who calls for the waters of the sea,

and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong,

so that destruction comes on the fortress.

10 They hate him who reproves in the gate,

and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat,

you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them.

You have planted pleasant vineyards,

but you shall not drink their wine.

12 For I know how many are your offenses,

and how great are your sins—

you who afflict the just,

who take a bribe,

and who turn away the needy in the courts.

13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,

for it is an evil time.

14 Seek good, and not evil,

that you may live;

and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,

as you say.

15 Hate evil, love good,

and establish justice in the courts.

It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:

"Wailing will be in all the wide ways.

They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’

They will call the farmer to mourning,

and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

17 In all vineyards there will be wailing,

for I will pass through the middle of you," says Yahweh.

18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh!

Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?

It is darkness,

and not light.

19 As if a man fled from a lion,

and a bear met him;

or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,

and a snake bit him.

20 Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light?

Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

21 I hate, I despise your feasts,

and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,

I will not accept them;

neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

23 Take away from me the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24 But let justice roll on like rivers,

and righteousness like a mighty stream.

25 "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? 26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. 27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.

He Karanga ki te Rīpenetātanga

1 Whakarongo ki tēnei kupu, kua maranga nei i ahau hei tangi ki a koutou, e te whare o Īharaira:

2 "Kua hinga te wāhina a Īharaira,

e kore ia e ara i muri;

kua whakatakā ia ki runga ki tōna oneone;

kāhore he mea hei whakaara ake i a ia."

3 Nō te mea ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā:

"Ko te pā kotahi nei te mano i te haerenga atu,

kotahi rau e toe,

ā, ko tērā kotahi nei te rau i te haerenga atu,

kotahi tekau e toe ki te whare o Īharaira."

4 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā ki te whare o Īharaira:

"Rapua ahau, kia ora ai koutou;

5 otiia, kaua e rapu i Pētēre,

kaua e haere ki Kirikara,

kaua anō e haere ki Peerehepa;

nō te mea tērā a Kirikara ka riro i te whakarau,

ā, hei kore noa iho a Pētēre."

6 Rapua a Ihowā, ā, ka ora koutou;

kei toro atu ia, ānō he ahi, i roto i te whare o Hōhepa,

ā, pau noa, ā, kore noa iho he kaitinei i roto i Pētēre.

7 E te hunga i puta kē ai te whakawā hei taru kawa,

i tāia ai te tika ki te whenua.

8 Rapua te kaihanga o Matariki, o Tautoru;

e riro kē ana i a ia te ātārangi o te mate hei ata,

e whakapōuritia ana e ia te rā hei pō;

e karangatia ana e ia ngā wai o te moana,

ā, ringihia ana e ia ki runga ki te mata o te whenua,

ko Ihowā tōna ingoa;

9 nāna i whakaputa ohorere te whakangaromanga ki te hunga kaha,

i tae ai te whakangaromanga ki te pā kaha.

10 E kinongia ana e rātou te kairiri hē i te kūwaha,

ā, he mea whakarihariha ki a rātou te tangata kōrero tika.

11 Nā, i te mea he takahi tā koutou i te ware,

he tango i te takoha wīti i a ia;

he whare kōhatu tārai tā koutou i hanga ai,

nā, e kore e nohoia e koutou;

he māra wāina e minaminatia ana tā koutou i whakatō ai,

otiia e kore te wāina o aua māra e inumia e koutou.

12 E mōhiotia ana hoki e ahau te maha o ō koutou poka kē,

me te kaha o ō koutou hara –

o koutou e whakatupu kino nei i te tangata tika,

e tango nei i te utu whakapati,

e whakangau kē nei i tā te rawakore i te kūwaha.

13 Mō reira ka whakarongo puku te tangata tūpato i taua wā;

nō te mea he wā kino.

14 Rapua te pai, kauaka hoki te kino,

kia ora ai koutou;

pēnei ko Ihowā, ko te Atua o ngā mano hei hoa mō koutou,

hei pēnā anō me tā koutou e kī nā.

15 Kinongia te kino, arohaina te pai,

whakapūmautia te whakawā ki te kūwaha.

Tērā pea a Ihowā, te Atua o ngā mano,

ka aroha ki te toenga o Hōhepa.

16 Mō reira tēnei kupu a Ihowā, a te Atua o ngā mano, a te Ariki:

"I ngā waharoa katoa ko te tangi;

ko tā rātou kupu i ngā huarahi katoa, ‘Auē! auē!’

Ka karangatia te kaingaki whenua ki te tangi,

me te hunga mātau ki te uhunga, hei auē;

17 ā, he auē i ngā māra wāina katoa,

ka tika atu hoki ahau i waenganui i a koe,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

He Rā Pōuri te Rā o Ihowā

18 Auē te mate mō koutou e hiahia nei ki te rā o Ihowā!

Hei aha mā koutou te rā o Ihowā?

He pōuri hoki, ehara i te mārama;

19 ka pērā me te tangata i rere atu i te aroaro o te raiona,

ā, ka tūtaki te pea ki a ia;

i haere rānei ki roto ki te whare,

ā, okioki atu ana tōna ringa ki te pakitara,

nā, ngaua iho ia e te nākahi.

20 He teka ianei tērā e pōuri te rā o Ihowā, e kore e mārama?

Tērā e pōuri kerekere, kāhore hoki he mārama i roto?

21 "E kino ana ahau, e whakarihariha ana ki ā koutou hākari,

ā, e kore ahau e āhuareka ki ā koutou huihui nunui.

22 Āe rā, ahakoa whakaeke noa koutou i ngā tahunga tinana,

i ā koutou whakahere totokore ki ahau,

e kore e manakohia e ahau.

E kore anō e tirohia e ahau ngā whakahere mō te pai,

arā ā koutou mea mōmona.

23 Maua atu kia matara i ahau te ngangau o āu waiata;

e kore hoki ahau e whakarongo ki te rangi o āu hātere.

24 Engari, kia huri mai te whakawā ānō he wai,

te tika ānō he awa nui.

25 "I kawea mai koia e koutou ki ahau he patunga tapu,

he whakahere totokore, e te whare o Īharaira, i te koraha, i ngā tau e whā tekau?

26 Āe rā, kua maua e koutou a Hikutu,

tō koutou kīngi, a Kiunu hoki, ā koutou whakapakoko,

te whetū o tō koutou atua,

i hangā nei e koutou mā koutou.

27 Nā, ka whakaraua koutou e ahau ki kō atu i Ramahiku,"

e ai tā Ihowā nōna nei te ingoa, Ko te Atua o ngā Mano.