预言以色列的毁灭
1在锡安生活安逸舒适的人啊，
你们有祸了！
在撒玛利亚山上自觉无忧的人啊，
你们有祸了！
你们是列国之首以色列的显要，
以色列人都仰望你们。
2你们去甲尼看看，
然后从那里到哈玛大城，
再到非利士人的迦特看看。
你们比这些国家更好吗？
他们的领土不比你们的更广阔吗？
3你们以为灾难的日子离得还远，
就大肆施行暴政。
4你们躺在象牙床上，靠在卧榻上，
你们吃养在圈里的肥嫩牛羊。
5你们伴着琴声唱慵懒的歌，
像大卫一样为自己制造乐器。
6你们以大碗狂饮，
用上等膏油抹身，
却漠不关心约瑟家的衰亡。
7所以，你们要首先被掳，
你们的宴乐将从此消逝！
8万军之上帝——主耶和华凭自己起誓：
“我憎恶雅各的骄傲，
厌弃他的城堡。
我要把城和城中的一切都交给敌人。”
9那时，如果一栋房子里剩下十人，这十人也要死亡。 10亲属抬出尸体焚烧时，必问内屋的人：“你那里还有别人吗？”那人必回答：“没有。”问的人必说：“不要作声，我们不可提耶和华的名。”
11看啊，耶和华一声令下，
大屋顿成瓦砾，小房化为碎片。
12马能在悬崖上奔驰吗？
牛能在海中耕作吗？
你们却使公正沦为毒药，
使公义之果变成苦艾。
13你们炫耀自己征服了罗底巴，
吹嘘凭自己的能力夺取了加宁。
14万军之上帝耶和华说：
“以色列家啊，
我要使一个国家兴起攻击你们，
他们要从哈马口直至亚拉巴河，
到处欺压你们。”
How Terrible for Those Who Feel Secure When They Shouldn’t
1How terrible it will be for you men
who are so contented on Mount Zion!
How terrible for you who feel secure
on the hill of Samaria!
You are famous men from the greatest nation.
The people of Israel come to you
for help and advice.
2Go and look at the city of Kalneh.
Go from there to the great city of Hamath.
Then go down to Gath in Philistia.
Are those places better off than your two kingdoms?
Is their land larger than yours?
3You are trying to avoid the time
when trouble will come.
But you are only bringing closer
the Assyrian rule of terror.
4You lie down on beds
that are decorated with ivory.
You rest on your couches.
You eat the best lambs
and the fattest calves.
5You pluck away on your harps as David did.
You play new songs on musical instruments.
6You drink wine by the bowlful.
You use the finest lotions.
But Joseph’s people will soon be destroyed.
And you aren’t even sad about it.
7So you will be among the first
to be taken away as prisoners.
You won’t be able to enjoy good food.
You won’t lie around on couches anymore.
The Lord Hates the Pride of Israel
8The Lord and King has made a promise in his own name. He is the Lord God who rules over all. He announces,
“I hate the pride of Jacob’s people.
I can’t stand their forts.
I will hand the city of Samaria
and everything in it over to their enemies.”
9Ten people might be left in one house. If they are, they will die there. 10Relatives might come to burn the dead bodies. If they do, they’ll have to carry them out of the house first. They might ask someone still hiding there, “Is anyone else here with you?” If the answer is no, the relatives will go on to say, “Be quiet! We must not pray in the Lord’s name.”
11That’s because the Lord has already given an order.
He will smash large houses to pieces.
He will crush small houses to bits.
12Horses don’t run on rocky ground.
People don’t plow the sea with oxen.
But you have turned fair treatment into poison.
You have turned the fruit of right living into bitterness.
13You are happy because you captured the town of Lo Debar.
You say, “We were strong enough to take Karnaim too.”
14But the Lord God rules over all. He announces, “People of Israel,
I will stir up a nation against you.
They will crush you from Lebo Hamath
all the way down to the Arabah Valley.”
