Kniha proroka Amosa

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Am 5, 1-27

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 The virgin of Israel has been thrown onto her land, there is no one who can raise her up. 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 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and you will live. 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 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 You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth. 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 It is he who smiles destruction on the healthy, and who brings pillaging upon the powerful. 10 They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly. 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 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 Therefore, the prudent will be silent at that time, for it is an evil time. 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 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 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 And in all the vineyards there will be wailing. For I will cross through your midst, says the Lord. 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 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 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? 21 I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings. 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 Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre. 24 And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent. 25 Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel? 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 And I will cause you to go into captivity across Damascus, says the Lord. The God of hosts is his name.

Verš 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.

Am 4:4 - Come to Bethel and behave impiously, to Gilgal and increase betrayals. And bring daybreak to your victims, your tithes in three days.

Verš 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.

Jób 9:9 - He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.

Jób 38:31 - Will you have the strength to join together the sparkling stars of the Pleiades, or are you able to disperse the circling of Arcturus?

Am 9:6 - He establishes his ascension into heaven, and he has founded his bundle on the earth. He calls the waters of the ocean, and pours them over the face of the earth. The Lord is his name.

Verš 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.

Sof 1:13 - And their strength will be in plundering, and their houses in the desert. And they will build houses and not dwell in them, and they will plant vineyards and not drink their wine.

Verš 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.

Ž 34:14 - Like a neighbor, and like our brother, so did I please; like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.

Ž 97:10 -

Rim 12:9 - Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,

Verš 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.

Iz 5:19 - and who say: “Let him hurry, and let his work arrive soon, so that we may see it. And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach and arrive, so that we may know it.”

Jer 30:7 - Woe! For that day is great, and there is nothing like it. For it is the time of tribulation for Jacob, but he will be saved from it.

Joe 2:2 - a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and whirlwinds. Like the morning reaching over the mountains, they are a numerous and strong people. Nothing like them has existed since the beginning, nor will exist after them, even in the years of generation upon generation.

Sof 1:15 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and anguish, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and whirlwinds,

Verš 21

I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.

Iz 1:11 - The 398 multitude of your sacrifices, what is that to me, says the Lord? I am full. I do not desire holocausts of rams, nor the fat of fatlings, nor the blood of calves and of lambs and of he-goats.

Jer 6:20 - For what reason are you bringing me frankincense from Sheba, and sweet smelling reeds from a far away land? Your holocausts are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

Verš 25

Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?

Sk 7:42 - Then God turned, and he handed them over, to subservience to the armies of heaven, just as it was written in the Book of the Prophets: ‘Did you not offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Am 5,3 - Z vojska, ktoré vyšlú do boja, ostane len desiata čiastka.

Am 5,5 - O Beteli a Galgale pozri pozn. k Oz 4,15. – Bersabe bolo na juhu Júdska, no Izraeliti aj ta chodili na nezákonitú bohoslužbu.

Am 5,6 - Pán dopadne na Jozefov dom ako oheň. – Jozefov dom je Severná ríša. Od Jozefa pochádzali kmene Efraim a Manasses.

Am 5,7 - Právo obracajú Izraeliti na trpké bezprávie.

Am 5,10 - Nenávidia spravodlivých sudcov a pravdovravných svedkov.

Am 5,12 - Sudcom sa vyčíta úplatkárstvo.

Am 5,14 - Pretože v krajine panoval blahobyt, vraveli si Izraeliti, že je Boh s nimi, že im pomáha.

Am 5,17 - Porov. Ex 12,12.

Am 5,18-20 - Izraeliti sa nazdávali, že sa nemajú čo báť Božieho trestu (pozri k veršu 14) a že v deň Pána (pozri k Joel 1,15) bude Boh trestať len ich nepriateľov. Mýlia sa, pretože ten deň bude aj pre nich dňom trestu.

Am 5,21-23 - Boh zavrhuje bohoslužby Izraela, pretože sú nezákonité a bezduché.

Am 5,25 - Verše sú nejasné a neisté. Možno ich rozumieť tak, že Izraeliti na púšti neprinášali Pánovi obety, ale klaňali sa modlám; ale aj tak, že aj Pánovi prinášali obety a súčasne aj konali modloslužbu, ako to robia teraz. Moloch a Kaivan boli modly. Kaivan, asýrsky Kajaman, volala sa obežnica Saturn, ktorí tiež zbožňovali.

Am 5,27 - Do asýrskeho zajatia išli Izraeliti cez Damask.