Amós 9

1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake. Break them in pieces on the head of all of them. I will kill the last of them with the sword. Not one of them will flee away. Not one of them will escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol,*9:2 Sheol is the place of the dead. there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. 5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. 6 It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth—Yahweh is his name. 7 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh. 9 "For behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. 10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’ 11 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old, 12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this.

13 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh,

"that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,

and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;

and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,

and flow from the hills.

14 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,

and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;

and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.

They shall also make gardens,

and eat their fruit.

15 I will plant them on their land,

and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,"

says Yahweh your God.

Te Whakawātanga a te Ariki

1 I kite ahau i te Ariki e tū ana i te taha o te āta, nā, ka mea ia:

"Tāia ngā puku whakapaipai, kia ngarue ai ngā paepae;

ākina kia pakaru rikiriki ki runga ki te māhunga o rātou katoa;

ā, ka tukitukia e ahau ngā whakamutunga o rātou ki te hoari;

e kore rawa tētahi kotahi o rātou e rere,

e kore hoki tētahi kotahi e mawhiti.

2 Ahakoa keri noa rātou, ā tae noa ki te rēinga,

ka tīkina atu rātou e tōku ringa i reira;

ahakoa kake ki te rangi,

ka riro iho anō i ahau i reira.

3 Ahakoa piri rātou ki te tihi o Karamere,

ka rapua e ahau, ka tangohia mai i reira;

ahakoa i huna atu rātou, kei kitea e ahau, ki te takere o te moana,

ka whakahaua e ahau te nākahi i reira, ā, ka ngau ia i a rātou.

4 Ahakoa haere rātou he pārau i te aroaro o ō rātou hoariri,

ka whakahaua e ahau te hoari i reira hei tukituki i a rātou;

ā, ka ū atu ōku kanohi ki a rātou mō te kino,

kāhore hoki mō te pai."

5 Ko te Ariki hoki, ko Ihowā o ngā mano,

ko ia te pā ana ki te whenua, rewa tonu iho,

tangi ana ngā tāngata katoa o reira,

ā, ka pari katoa ake ānō ko te awa;

ka hoki iho anō, ka pērā me te awa o Īhipa;

6 ko ia te hanga nei i āna rūma ki runga ki te rangi,

tū ana i a ia tāna rua ki te whenua;

ko ia te karanga nei ki ngā wai o te moana,

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

ko Ihowā tōna ingoa.

7 "He teka ianei, ki tāku,

he rite koutou ki ngā tama a ngā Etiopiana,

e ngā tama a Īharaira?"

e ai tā Ihowā.

"He teka ianei nāku a Īharaira i kawe mai i te whenua o Īhipa,

ngā Pirihitini i Kapatoro me ngā Hīriani i Kiri?

8 Nanā, kei runga ngā kanohi o te Ariki, o Ihowā, i te kīngitanga hara,

ā, ka poto atu i ahau i runga i te mata o te whenua –

e kore ia e poto rawa i ahau te whare o Hākopa,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

9 "Nō te mea, tēnei ahau te whakahau nei,

ā, ka tātaria e ahau te whare o Īharaira ki roto ki ngā iwi katoa,

ka pērātia me te wīti e tātaria ana ki te tātari,

e kore anō tētahi pata ririki e taka ki te whenua.

10 Ka mate i te hoari te hunga hara katoa o tāku iwi,

ēnā e kī nā, ‘E kore tātou e mau, e kore anō e haukotia e te kino.’ "

Te Whakahokinga o te Kīngitanga o Rāwiri

11 "I taua rā ka ara i ahau

te tapenākara o Rāwiri kua hinga nei,

ka tūtakina anō e ahau ōna wāhi pakaru;

ka ara anō i ahau ōna wāhi i whakahoroa,

ka hangā anō e ahau kia rite ki ngā rā o mua;

12 kia riro ai i a rātou te toenga o Ēroma,

o ngā iwi katoa anō kua oti tōku ingoa te whakahua mō rātou,"

e ai tā Ihowā, nāna nei tēnei mahi.

13 "Nanā, kei te haere mai ngā rā," e ai tā Ihowā,

"e mau ai te kaikokoti i te kaiparau,

e mau ai hoki te kaiwhakatō purapura i te kaitakahi karepe;

ka māturuturu anō te wāina hou o ngā maunga,

ā, ka rewa ngā pukepuke katoa.

14 Ka whakahokia mai anō e ahau tāku iwi, a Īharaira, i te whakarau,

ā, ka hangā e rātou ngā pā kua ururuatia, nohoia iho;

ka whakatō māra wāina anō rātou, ka inu i te wāina o aua māra;

ka mahi kāri anō rātou, ā, ka kai i ngā hua o reira.

15 Ka whakatōkia anō rātou e ahau ki tō rātou oneone;

e kore anō rātou e unuhia atu i muri ake nei,

i tō rātou oneone i hoatu e ahau ki a rātou,"

e ai tā Ihowā, tā tōu Atua.