आमोस 5

1 हे इस्राएल के घराने, इस विलाप के गीत के वचन सुन जो मैं तुम्हारे विषय में कहता हूं:

2 इस्राएल की कुमारी कन्या गिर गई, और फिर उठ न सकेगी; वह अपनी ही भूमि पर पटक दी गई है, और उसका उठाने वाला कोई नहीं॥

3 क्योंकि परमेश्वर यहोवा यों कहता है, जिस नगर से हजार निकलते थे, उस में इस्राएल के घराने के सौ ही बचे रहेंगे, और जिस से सौ निकलते थे, उस में दस बचे रहेंगे॥

4 यहोवा, इस्राएल के घराने से यों कहता है, मेरी खोज में लगो, तब जीवित रहोगे।

5 बेतेल की खोज में न लगो, न गिल्गाल में प्रवेश करो, और न बर्शेबा को जाओ; क्योंकि गिल्गाल निश्चय बंधुआई में जाएगा, और बेतेल सूना पड़ेगा॥

6 यहोवा की खोज करो, तब जीवित रहोगे, नहीं तो वह यूसुफ के घराने पर आग की नाईं भड़केगा, और वह उसे भस्म करेगी, और बेतेल में कोई उसका बुझाने वाला न होगा।

7 हे न्याय के बिगाड़ने वालों और धर्म को मिट्टी में मिलाने वालों!

8 जो कचपचिया और मृगशिरा का बनाने वाला है, जो घोर अन्धकार को भोर का प्रकाश बनाता है, जो दिन को अन्धकार कर के रात बना देता है, और समुद्र का जल स्थल के ऊपर बहा देता है, उसका नाम यहोवा है।

9 वह तुरन्त ही बलवन्त को विनाश कर देता, और गढ़ का भी सत्यानाश करता है॥

10 जो सभा में उलाहना देता है उस से वे बैर रखते हैं, और खरी बात बोलने वाले से घृणा करते हैं।

11 तुम जो कंगालों को लताड़ा करते, और भेंट कहकर उस से अन्न हर लेते हो, इसलिये जो घर तुम ने गढ़े हुए पत्थरों के बनाए हैं, उन में रहने न पाओगे; और जो मनभावनी दाख की बारियां तुम ने लगाई हैं, उनका दाखमधु न पीने पाओगे।

12 क्योंकि मैं जानता हूं कि तुम्हारे पाप भारी हैं। तुम धर्मी को सताते और घूस लेते, और फाटक में दरिद्रों का न्याय बिगाड़ते हो।

13 इस कारण जो बुद्धिमान् हो, वह ऐसे समय चुपका रहे, क्योंकि समय बुरा है॥

14 हे लोगो, बुराई को नहीं, भलाई को ढूंढ़ो, ताकि तुम जीवित रहो; और तुम्हारा यह कहना सच ठहरे कि सेनाओं का परमेश्वर यहोवा तुम्हारे संग है।

15 बुराई से बैर और भलाई से प्रीति रखो, और फाटक में न्याय को स्थिर करो; क्या जाने सेनाओं का परमेश्वर यहोवा यूसुफ से बचे हुओं पर अनुग्रह करे॥

16 इस कारण सेनाओं का परमेश्वर, प्रभु यहोवा यों कहता है, सब चौकों में रोना-पीटना होगा; और सब सड़कों में लोग हाय, हाय, करेंगे! वे किसानों को शोक करने के लिये, और जो लोग विलाप करने में निपुण हैं, उन्हें रोने-पीटने को बुलाएंगे।

17 और सब दाख की बारियों में रोना-पीटना होगा, क्योंकि यहोवा यों कहता है, मैं तुम्हारे बीच में से हो कर जाऊंगा।

18 हाय तुम पर, जो यहोवा के दिन की अभिलाषा करते हो! यहोवा के दिन से तुम्हारा क्या लाभ होगा? वह जो उजियाले का नहीं, अन्धियारे का दिन होगा।

19 जैसा कोई सिंह से भागे और उसे भालू मिले; वा घर में आकर भीत पर हाथ टेके और सांप उसको डसे।

20 क्या यह सच नहीं है कि यहोवा का दिन उजियाले का नहीं, वरन अन्धियारे ही का होगा? हां, ऐसे घोर अन्धकार का जिस में कुछ भी चमक न हो॥

21 मैं तुम्हारे पर्वों से बैर रखता, और उन्हें निकम्मा जानता हूं, और तुम्हारी महासभाओं से मैं प्रसन्न नहीं।

22 चाहे तुम मेरे लिये होमबलि और अन्नबलि चढ़ाओ, तौभी मैं प्रसन्न न हूंगा, और तुम्हारे पाले हुए पशुओं के मेलबलियों की ओर न ताकूंगा।

23 अपने गीतों का कोलाहल मुझ से दूर करो; तुम्हारी सारंगियों का सुर मैं न सुनूंगा।

24 परन्तु न्याय को नदी की नाईं, और धर्म महानद की नाईं बहने दो।

25 हे इस्राएल के घराने, तुम जंगल में चालीस वर्ष तक पशुबलि और अन्नबलि क्या मुझी को चढ़ाते रहे?

26 नहीं, तुम तो अपने राजा का तम्बू, और अपनी मूरतों की चरणपीठ, और अपने देवता का तारा लिए फिरते रहे।

27 इस कारण मैं तुम को दमिश्क के उस पार बंधुआई में कर दूंगा, सेनाओं के परमेश्वर यहोवा का यही वचन है॥

1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

3 For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

6 Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

16 Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:

4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;

6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.

8 And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.

13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)

15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.

19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

20 And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

22 For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.