Amos · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Amos 5 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Escuchen la palabra que pronuncio como lamento por ustedes, oh Casa de Israel:
1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
2 La virgen de Israel cayó para no levantarse. Está tendido y abandonado su cuerpo. No hay quien la levante.
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 ʼAdonay Yavé dice a la Casa de Israel: La ciudad que salía con 1.000, queda con 100, y la que salía con 100, queda con diez.
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 Yavé dice a la Casa de Israel: Búsquenme y vivirán.
4 For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
5 No busquen a Bet-ʼEl, ni vayan a Gilgal, ni pasen a Beerseba, porque Gilgal ciertamente irá en cautiverio y Bet-ʼEl será reducida a escombro.
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 Busquen a Yavé para que vivan, no sea que Él acometa con fuego la casa de José, y nadie esté en Bet-ʼEl para apagarlo.
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 Ustedes los que convierten el juicio en ajenjo y lanzan a tierra la justicia,
7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
8 [busquen] al que creó las Pléyades y Orión, que cambia en mañana la oscuridad y oscurece el día como la noche, al que llama a las aguas del mar y las derrama sobre la superficie de la tierra. Yavé es su Nombre,
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 Quien irrumpe con destrucción repentina caiga contra la fortaleza para que la destruya.
9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
10 Ellos aborrecen al que amonesta en la puerta y repugnan al que habla rectamente.
10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
11 Por tanto, porque ustedes pisotean al pobre y reciben el tributo de sus granos, aunque edifiquen casas de piedra labrada, no vivirán en ellas. Aunque planten hermosas viñas no beberán su vino.
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 Yo conozco bien sus numerosas rebeliones y sus grandes pecados: Oprimen al justo, reciben soborno y atropellan a los pobres en la puerta.
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 Por tanto, el prudente calla en ese tiempo, porque es tiempo peligroso.
13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
14 ¡Busquen el bien y no el mal, y vivirán. Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes, estará con ustedes, tal como ustedes dicen!
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 Aborrezcan el mal, amen el bien y afirmen la justicia en la puerta. Tal vez Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes, tenga compasión del remanente de José.
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 ʼAdonay Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes dice: En todas las plazas habrá llanto y en todas las calles dirán: ¡Ay! ¡Ay! Y llamarán al labrador a duelo y a lamentación a los que saben lamentar.
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 En todas las viñas habrá llanto, porque pasaré entre ustedes, dice Yavé.
17 In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
18 ¡Ay de los que anhelan el día de Yavé! ¿Para qué desean este día de Yavé? Será de tinieblas y no de luz,
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 como cuando uno huye del león y choca con un oso. O al entrar en su casa, apoya la mano en la pared y lo muerde una serpiente.
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 ¿No será el día de Yavé oscuridad y no luz? ¿Muy oscuro, sin resplandor?
20 Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 ¡Aborrezco, repugno sus solemnidades! ¡Sus asambleas no me son olor grato!
21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
22 Aunque me ofrezcan holocaustos y ofrendas vegetales, no las aceptaré, ni miraré sus sacrificios de paz con animales engordados.
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 Retiren el bullicio de los cánticos de mi Presencia. No quiero escuchar el sonido de tus arpas.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 Pero fluya la justicia como las aguas, y la equidad como arroyo perenne.
24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 ¿Me ofrecieron sacrificios y ofrendas en el desierto durante 40 años, oh Casa de Israel?
25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
26 Más bien, llevaron a Sicut, su rey, y a Quiún, la estrella de sus ʼelohim que hicieron para ustedes.
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 Por tanto, promoveré que los deporten más allá de Damasco, dice Yavé, cuyo Nombre es ʼElohim de las huestes.
27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 19:1; Jeremiah 9:17; Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 9:10; Amos 3:1
- 2 Jeremiah 14:17; Hosea 14:1; Isaiah 14:21; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 15:29
- 3 Romans 9:27; Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 6:13; Ezekiel 12:16; Isaiah 1:9
- 4 Zephaniah 2:3; 2 Chronicles 15:2; Jeremiah 29:12–13; Isaiah 55:3; Psalm 14:2
- 5 Hosea 4:15; Amos 4:4; Amos 8:14; Genesis 21:33; Amos 7:17
- 6 Isaiah 55:6; Ezekiel 20:47–48; Ezekiel 33:11; Zechariah 10:6; Amos 5:14
- 7 Amos 6:12; Zephaniah 1:6; Ezekiel 3:20; Hosea 10:4; Deuteronomy 29:18
- 8 Amos 4:13; Job 9:9; Amos 9:6; Amos 8:9; Psalm 104:20
- 9 Jeremiah 37:10; 2 Kings 13:17; Micah 5:11; 2 Kings 13:25; Hebrews 11:34
- 10 1 Kings 22:8; Isaiah 29:21; John 8:45–47; Jeremiah 17:16–17; Proverbs 9:7–8
- 11 Micah 6:15; Zephaniah 1:13; Deuteronomy 28:30; James 2:6; Haggai 1:6
- 12 Amos 2:6–7; Amos 5:10; Isaiah 1:23; 1 Samuel 8:3; Psalm 26:9–10
- 13 2 Timothy 3:1; Hosea 4:4; Ephesians 5:15–16; Micah 2:3; Ecclesiastes 3:7
- 14 Joshua 1:9; Matthew 6:33; Philippians 4:8–9; Micah 6:8; Micah 3:11
- 15 Romans 12:9; 3 John 11; Joel 2:14; Psalm 97:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:21–22
- 16 Joel 1:11; Jeremiah 9:17–20; Jeremiah 9:10; Revelation 18:15–16; Micah 1:8
- 17 Exodus 12:12; Jeremiah 48:33; Isaiah 16:10; Isaiah 32:10–12; Joel 3:17
- 18 Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1–2; Joel 2:31; Jeremiah 30:7; Malachi 4:1
- 19 Isaiah 24:17–18; Jeremiah 15:2–3; Jeremiah 48:43–44; Job 20:24–25; Acts 28:4
- 20 Isaiah 13:10; Zephaniah 1:15; Ezekiel 34:12; Job 10:21–22; Jude 13
- 21 Isaiah 1:11–16; Proverbs 28:9; Leviticus 26:31; Isaiah 66:3; Jeremiah 6:20
- 22 Micah 6:6–7; Amos 4:4–5; Isaiah 66:3; Leviticus 7:12–15; Psalm 50:23
- 23 Amos 6:5; Amos 8:10; Amos 8:3
- 24 Micah 6:8; Jeremiah 22:3; Proverbs 21:3; Hosea 6:6; Mark 12:32–34
- 25 Acts 7:42–43; Ezekiel 20:8; Nehemiah 9:18; Joshua 24:14; Leviticus 17:7
- 26 Leviticus 20:2–5; 2 Kings 23:12–13; 1 Kings 11:33; Leviticus 18:21
- 27 2 Kings 17:6; Acts 7:43; Amos 4:13; 2 Kings 15:29
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
But God turned, and gave them up to worship the hosts of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets: O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to Me sacrifices and oblations for forty years in the wilderness?
I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul, and my soul liveth by Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
I am moreover restrained by the Prophet's saying, "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time," a time when some trip up their neighbours' heels, some stamp on a man when he is down, and others clap their hands with joy, but there is not one to feel for the fallen and hold …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
The day of the Lord is darkness and not light." A day of darkness for those who are worthy of darkness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)