Amos 5

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Listen to this word which I utter against you, it is a dirge, House of Israel:	1 Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.
2 She has fal en down, never to rise again, the virgin Israel. There she lies on her own soil, with no oneto lift her up.	2 The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.
3 For Lord Yahweh says this: The town which used to put a thousand in the field wil be left with ahundred, and the one which used to put a hundred will be left with ten, to fight for the House of Israel.	3 For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.
4 For Yahweh says this to the House of Israel: Seek me out and you wil survive,	4 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.
5 but do not seek out Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal is going intocaptivity and Bethel will be brought to nothing.	5 But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.
6 Seek out Yahweh and you wil survive or else he wil sweep like fire upon the House of Joseph andburn it down, with no one at Bethel able to quench the flames.	6 Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.
7 They turn justice into wormwood and throw uprightness to the ground.	7 You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
8 He it is who makes the Pleiades and Orion, who turns shadow dark as death into morning and day todarkest night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the surface of the land. Yahweh is hisname.	8 Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
9 He brings destruction on the strong and ruin comes on the fortress.	9 He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.
10 They hate the man who teaches justice at the city gate and detest anyone who declares the truth.	10 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
11 For trampling on the poor man and for extorting levies on his wheat: although you have built housesof dressed stone, you wil not live in them; although you have planted pleasant vineyards, you wil not drink winefrom them:	11 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.
12 for I know how many your crimes are and how outrageous your sins, you oppressors of the upright,who hold people to ransom and thrust the poor aside at the gates.	12 Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.
13 That is why anyone prudent keeps silent now, since the time is evil.	13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good and not evil so that you may survive, and Yahweh, God Sabaoth, be with you as you claimhe is.	14 Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
15 Hate evil, love good, let justice reign at the city gate: it may be that Yahweh, God Sabaoth, wil takepity on the remnant of Joseph.	15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore Yahweh Sabaoth, the Lord, says this: In every public square there wil be lamentation, inevery street they will cry out, 'Alas! Alas!' The farmer wil be called on to mourn, the professional mourners tolament,	16 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
17 and there wil be wailing in every vineyard, for I mean to pass through among you, Yahweh says.	17 And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
18 Disaster for you who long for the Day of Yahweh! What will the Day of Yahweh mean for you? It wilmean darkness, not light,	18 Woe to them 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 when someone runs away from a lion, only to meet a bear; he goes into his house and puts hishand on the wal , only for a snake to bite him.	19 As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
20 Will not the Day of Yahweh be darkness, not light, total y dark, without a ray of light?	20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I scorn your festivals, I take no pleasure in your solemn assemblies.	21 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
22 When you bring me burnt offerings . . . your oblations, I do not accept them and I do not look at yourcommunion sacrifices of fat cattle.	22 And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.
23 Spare me the din of your chanting, let me hear none of your strumming on lyres,	23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
24 but let justice flow like water, and uprightness like a never-failing stream!	24 But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.
25 Did you bring me sacrifices and oblations those forty years in the desert, House of Israel?	25 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?
26 Now you must shoulder Sakkuth your king and the star of your God, Kaiwan, those idols you made foryourselves;	26 But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27 for I am about to drive you into captivity beyond Damascus, Yahweh says -- God Sabaoth is hisname.	27 And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.