Amos · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Amos 9 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.
1 VI al Señor que estaba sobre el altar, y dijo: Hiere el umbral, y estremézcanse las puertas: y córtales en piezas la cabeza de todos; y el postrero de ellos mataré á cuchillo: no habrá de ellos quien se fugue, ni quien escape.
2 Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
2 Aunque cavasen hasta el infierno, de allá los tomará mi mano; y si subieren hasta el cielo, de allá los haré descender.
3 And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall bite them.
3 Y si se escondieren en la cumbre del Carmelo, allí los buscaré y los tomaré; y aunque se escondieren de delante de mis ojos en el profundo de la mar, allí mandaré á la culebra, y morderálos.
4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
4 Y si fueren en cautiverio, delante de sus enemigos, allí mandaré al cuchillo, y los matará; y pondré sobre ellos mis ojos para mal, y no para bien.
5 And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the earth, and it shall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up as a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.
5 El Señor Jehová de los ejércitos [es] el que toca la tierra, y se derretirá, y llorarán todos los que en ella moran: y subirá toda como un río, y hundiráse luego como el río de Egipto.
6 He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath founded his bundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.
6 El edificó en el cielo sus gradas, y ha establecido su expansión sobre la tierra: él llama las aguas de la mar, y sobre la haz de la tierra las derrama: Jehová es su nombre.
7 Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the land of Egypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene?
7 Hijos de Israel, ¿no me sois vosotros, dice Jehová, como hijos de Etiopes? ¿no hice yo subir á Israel de la tierra de Egipto, y á los Palestinos de Caphtor, y de Chîr á los Arameos?
8 Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.
8 He aquí los ojos del Señor Jehová están contra el reino pecador, y yo lo asolaré de la haz de la tierra: mas no destruiré del todo la casa de Jacob, dice Jehová.
9 For behold I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as corn is sifted in a sieve: and there shall not a little stone fall to the ground.
9 Porque he aquí yo mandaré, y haré que la casa de Israel sea zarandeada entre todas las gentes, como se zarandea [el grano] en un harnero, y no cae un granito en la tierra.
10 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.
10 A cuchillo morirán todos los pecadores de mi pueblo, que dicen: No se acercará, ni nos alcanzará el mal.
11◆ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.
11 En aquel día yo levantaré el tabernáculo de David, caído, y cerraré sus portillos, y levantaré sus ruinas, y edificarélo como en el tiempo pasado;
12◆ That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these things.
12 Para que aquellos sobre los cuales es llamado mi nombre, posean el resto de Idumea, y á todas las naciones, dice Jehová que hace esto.
13 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.
13 He aquí vienen días, dice Jehová, en que el que ara alcanzará al segador, y el pisador de las uvas al que lleva la simiente; y los montes destilarán mosto, y todos los collados se derretirán.
14 And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel: and they shall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit them: and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them: and shall make gardens, and eat the fruits of them.
14 Y tornaré el cautiverio de mi pueblo Israel, y edificarán ellos las ciudades asoladas, y las habitarán; y plantarán viñas, y beberán el vino de ellas; y harán huertos, y comerán el fruto de ellos.
15 And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.
15 Pues los plantaré sobre su tierra, y nunca más serán arrancados de su tierra que yo les dí, ha dicho Jehová Dios tuyo.
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 68:21; Amos 3:14; John 1:18; Revelation 1:17; Isaiah 6:1
- 2 Jeremiah 51:53; Psalm 139:7–10; Obadiah 4; Luke 10:18; Ezekiel 28:13–16
- 3 Jeremiah 16:16; Jeremiah 23:23–24; Job 34:22; Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 139:9–11
- 4 Leviticus 26:33; Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 44:11; Ezekiel 5:12; Leviticus 17:10
- 5 Amos 8:8; Psalm 46:6; Micah 1:3–4; Isaiah 64:1; Revelation 20:11
- 6 Amos 5:8; Psalm 104:3; Amos 4:13; Psalm 104:13; Jeremiah 5:22
- 7 Jeremiah 47:4; Deuteronomy 2:23; 2 Kings 16:9; Amos 1:5; Jeremiah 13:23
- 8 Jeremiah 30:11; Amos 9:4; Jeremiah 44:27; Jeremiah 5:10; Proverbs 5:21
- 9 Luke 22:31; Deuteronomy 28:64; Leviticus 26:33; Isaiah 30:28
- 10 Amos 6:3; Isaiah 33:14; Matthew 13:49–50; Matthew 3:10–12; Amos 6:1
- 11 Acts 15:15–17; Jeremiah 33:14–16; Isaiah 16:5; Jeremiah 23:5–6; Psalm 80:12
- 12 Isaiah 43:7; Isaiah 65:1; Acts 15:17; Jeremiah 14:9; Isaiah 63:19
- 13 Joel 3:18; John 4:35; Leviticus 26:5; Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah 35:1–2
- 14 Isaiah 61:4; Jeremiah 30:3; Jeremiah 30:18; Ezekiel 28:26; Jeremiah 31:28
- 15 Jeremiah 24:6; Ezekiel 37:25; Isaiah 60:21; Ezekiel 34:28; Joel 3:20
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In the Hebrew text of Amos 9:12, restored Israel will “possess the remnant of Edom.” In the Septuagint, “the remnant of men” will “seek” the Lord. At the Council of Jerusalem St James quotes the Greek form to show that God intended Gentiles to belong to his people (Acts 15:16–17). The two readings differ by letters that look and sound alike in Hebrew.
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