Amos 5

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Audite verbum istud, quod ego levo super vos, planctum, domus Israel:	1 Listen to this word, which I lift over you in lamentation. The house of Israel has fallen, and it will no longer rise again.
2 Cecidit, non adiciet ut resurgat virgo Israel; proiecta est in terram suam, non est qui suscitet eam.	2 The virgin of Israel has been thrown onto her land, there is no one who can raise her up.
3 Quia haec dicit Dominus Deus: “ Urbs, de qua egrediebantur mille, relinquentur in ea centum; et de qua egrediebantur centum, relinquentur in ea decem pro domo Israel ”.	3 For thus says the Lord God: In the city from which a thousand departed, a hundred will remain, and in that from which a hundred departed, ten will remain, in the house of Israel.
4 Quia haec dicit Dominus domui Israel: “ Quaerite me et vivetis;	4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and you will live.
5 et nolite quaerere Bethel et in Galgalam nolite intrare et in Bersabee nolite transire, quia Galgala captiva ducetur, et Bethel erit iniquitas ”.	5 But do not be willing to seek Bethel, and do not be willing to enter Gilgal, and you will not cross into Beer-sheba. For Gilgal will be led into captivity, and Bethel will be useless.
6 Quaerite Dominum et vivite; ne forte invadat sicut ignis domum Ioseph, et devoret, et non sit qui exstinguat Bethel.	6 Seek the Lord and live. Otherwise, the house of Joseph may be destroyed with fire, and it will devour, and there will be no one who can extinguish Bethel.
7 Qui convertunt in absinthium iudicium et iustitiam in terram deiciunt.	7 You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.
8 Qui facit stellas Pliadis et Orionem et convertit in mane tenebras et diem in noctem obscurat; qui vocat aquas maris et effundit eas super faciem terrae; Dominus nomen eius.	8 The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
9 Qui micare facit vastitatem super robustum et vastitatem super arcem affert.	9 It is he who smiles destruction on the healthy, and who brings pillaging upon the powerful.
10 Odio habuerunt corripientem in porta et loquentem perfecte abominati sunt.	10 They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly.
11 Idcirco, pro eo quod conculcastis pauperem et portionem frumenti abstulistis ab eo, domos quadro lapide aedificastis et non habitabitis in eis, vineas plantastis amantissimas et non bibetis vinum earum.	11 Therefore, on his behalf, because you have torn apart the poor and stolen choice prey from him: you will build houses with square stones and you will not dwell in them; you will plant the most delightful vineyards, and you will not drink wine from them.
12 Quia cognovi multa scelera vestra et fortia peccata vestra, opprimentes iustum, accipientes munus et pauperes deprimentes in porta.	12 For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.
13 Ideo prudens in tempore illo tacet, quia tempus malum est.	13 Therefore, the prudent will be silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
14 Quaerite bonum et non malum, ut vivatis, ita ut sit Dominus, Deus exercituum, vobiscum, sicut dixistis.	14 Seek good and not evil, so that you may live. And the Lord God of hosts will be with you, just as you have asked.
15 Odite malum et diligite bonum et constituite in porta iudicium, si forte misereatur Dominus, Deus exercituum, reliquiis Ioseph.	15 Hate evil and love good, and establish judgment at the gate. Perhaps then the Lord God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16 Propterea haec dicit Dominus, Deus exercituum, dominator: “ In omnibus plateis planctus, et in cunctis viis dicetur: “Vae, vae!”; et vocabunt agricolam ad luctum et ad planctum eos, qui sciunt lamentationem.	16 Therefore, thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Sovereign: In all the streets, there will be wailing. And in every place where they are outdoors, they will say, “Woe, woe!” And they will call the farmer to mourn, and those who know mourning to lamentation.
17 Et in omnibus vineis erit luctus, quia pertransibo in medio tui ”, dicit Dominus.	17 And in all the vineyards there will be wailing. For I will cross through your midst, says the Lord.
18 Vae desiderantibus diem Domini! Ad quid vobis dies Domini? Tenebrae et non lux.	18 Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord. What is it to you? The day of the Lord is this: darkness and not light.
19 Quomodo si fugiat vir a facie leonis, et occurrat ei ursus; et ingrediatur domum et innitatur manu sua super parietem, et mordeat eum coluber.	19 It is as if a man flees from the face of a lion, only to have a bear meet him; or, he enters a house and leans with his hand against the wall, only to have a snake bite him.
20 Numquid non tenebrae dies Domini et non lux? Et caligo sine splendore in ea?	20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
21 “ Odi, proieci festivitates vestras et non delector coetibus vestris.	21 I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.
22 Quod si obtuleritis mihi holocautomata, oblationes vestras non suscipiam et sacrificia pinguium vestrorum non respiciam.	22 For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness.
23 Aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum, et canticum lyrarum tuarum non audiam.	23 Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.
24 Et affluat quasi aqua iudicium, et iustitia quasi torrens perennis.	24 And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.
25 Numquid hostias et oblationes obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israel?	25 Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?
26 Et portastis Saccut regem vestrum, et Caivan, imagines vestras, sidus deorum vestrorum, quae fecistis vobis.	26 And you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch and the image of your idols: the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
27 Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum ”, dicit Dominus; Deus exercituum nomen eius.	27 And I will cause you to go into captivity across Damascus, says the Lord. The God of hosts is his name.