आमोस 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.
1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.