1蝗災的異象主耶和華向我這樣顯示：看哪！替王收割之後，田產又開始生長時，主造出一群蝗蟲。
1Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.
2蝗蟲吃盡地上的農產時，我說：“主耶和華啊！求你寬恕，因雅各太弱小，怎能站立得住呢？”
2It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
3耶和華對這事改變心意，耶和華說：“這事不會發生。”
3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
4火燄的異象主耶和華向我這樣顯示：看哪！主耶和華召來刑罰的火，燒毀廣大的深淵和以色列的地業。
4Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
5因此我對主耶和華說：“求你停止吧！因雅各太弱小，怎能站立得住呢？”
5Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
6耶和華對這事改變心意。主耶和華說：“這事也不會發生。”
6Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
7準繩的異象他向我這樣顯示：看哪！主站在一道按準繩建造的牆旁邊，手裡拿著準繩。
7Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
8耶和華對我說：“阿摩司，你看見甚麼？”我回答：“我看見準繩。”主又說：“看哪！我把準繩放在我民以色列中間，必不再放過他們。
8Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
9以撒的各邱壇必荒廢，以色列所有的聖所必廢棄；我必起來用刀擊殺耶羅波安家。”
9The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
10亞瑪謝控告阿摩司伯特利的祭司亞瑪謝派人向以色列王耶羅波安報告：“阿摩司在以色列家中圖謀背叛你，這國家不能容忍他說的話；
10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
11因為阿摩司這樣說：‘耶羅波安必死在刀下，以色列必被擄，離開本國。’”
11For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
12亞瑪謝對阿摩司說：“你這個先見，走吧！滾回猶大地去；在那裡你可以找食，在那裡你可以說預言。
12Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13但不要再在伯特利說預言，因為這裡是王的聖所，是王國的聖殿。”
13but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
14先知的見證與預言阿摩司回答亞瑪謝說：“我原不是先知，也不是先知的門徒；我本是牧人，是修理桑樹的，
14Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
15但耶和華選召我，叫我不再跟隨羊群；他對我說：‘你去，向我民以色列說預言。’
15and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
16現在你要聽耶和華的話；因為你說：‘不要說預言攻擊以色列，不要說攻擊以撒家的話。’
16Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
17所以，耶和華這樣說：‘你妻子必在城中作妓女，你的兒女必倒在刀下；你的土地必被人量度瓜分，你自己必死在不潔之地；以色列必被擄，離開本國。’”
17Therefore thus says Yahweh: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”