Kniha proroka Amosa

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Am 6, 1-15

1 Woe to you who have been wealthy in Zion, and to you who have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: aristocrats, heads of the people, who advance with a retinue into the house of Israel. 2 Cross over to Calneh and see, and go from there into Hamath the great, and descend into Gath of the Philistines, and to the best kingdoms of these, if their limits are wider than your limits. 3 You have been set aside for the day of disaster, and you approach the throne of iniquity. 4 You sleep on beds of ivory, and you are lustful on your couches. You devour lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the herd. 5 You sing to the sound of stringed instruments; they consider themselves to have the musical abilities of David. 6 You drink wine in bowls, and you anoint with the best ointments; and they suffer nothing over the grief of Joseph. 7 Because of this, now they will depart at the head of those who go into captivity; and the faction of the lustful will be removed. 8 The Lord God has sworn by his own soul, the Lord God of hosts says: I detest the arrogance of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will hand over the city with its inhabitants. 9 For if there were ten men remaining in one house, even they will die. 10 And his closest relative will steal him away and will burn him, so that he may carry the bones out of the house. And he will say to him that is in the inner most rooms of the house, “Now is there any left that still belongs to you?” 11 And he will answer, “It is finished.” And he will say to him, “Be silent and do not call to mind the name of the Lord.” 12 For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions. 13 Can horses gallop across rocks, or is anyone able to plough with gazelles? For you have turned judgment into bitterness and the fruit of justice into wormwood. 14 You rejoice in emptiness. You say, “Have we not, by our own strength, taken horns for ourselves?” 15 For behold, house of Israel, I will raise up a people over you, says the Lord God of hosts, and they will crush you from the entrance of Hamath all the way to the burning of the desert.

Verš 1

Woe to you who have been wealthy in Zion, and to you who have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: aristocrats, heads of the people, who advance with a retinue into the house of Israel.

Ex 19:5 - If, therefore, you will hear my voice, and you will keep my covenant, you will be to me a particular possession out of all people. For all the earth is mine.

Jer 2:3 - Israel is holy to the Lord, the first of his fruits. All those who devour him commit an offense. Evils will overwhelm them, says the Lord.”

Verš 3

You have been set aside for the day of disaster, and you approach the throne of iniquity.

Am 5:18 - 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.

Ez 12:27 - “Son of man, behold the house of Israel, those who are saying: ‘The visions that this one sees is many days away,’ and, ‘This man prophesies about times that are far away.’

Verš 5

You sing to the sound of stringed instruments; they consider themselves to have the musical abilities of David.

Iz 5:12 - Harp and lyre and timbrel and pipe, as well as wine, are at your feasts. But you do not respect the work of the Lord, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Verš 6

You drink wine in bowls, and you anoint with the best ointments; and they suffer nothing over the grief of Joseph.

Iz 5:11 - Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.

Iz 5:12 - Harp and lyre and timbrel and pipe, as well as wine, are at your feasts. But you do not respect the work of the Lord, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Verš 7

Because of this, now they will depart at the head of those who go into captivity; and the faction of the lustful will be removed.

Iz 5:13 - Because of this, my people have been led away as captives, for they did not have knowledge, and their nobles have passed away from famine, and their multitudes have dried up from thirst.

Verš 12

For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.

Am 5:7 - You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.

Am 6,2 - O Kalane a Emate pozri pozn. k Iz 10,9. O Gete pozri pozn. k Am 1,6–8. Tieto mestá kedysi prekvitali ako dnes Izrael, jednako padli do rúk nepriateľa. Ani Izrael nemá príčiny byť bezstarostným.

Am 6,3 - Izraeliti chcú odďaľovať svoju záhubu, ale zato panuje medzi nimi násilie.

Am 6,4-6 - O Jozefovi pozri pozn. k 5,6.

Am 6,9 - Porov. 5,3.

Am 6,10 - V čase vojny a moru aj Izraeliti pálili mŕtvoly a kosti potom pochovali (1 Sam 31,12 n.; porov. Lv 20,14; 21,9). – Posledný človek, ktorý ostal v dome ešte nažive, odpovedá tomu, čo vynáša z domov mŕtvoly: "Len nie spomenúť Pánovo meno!" Sú to slová zúfalca, ktorý všetko nešťastie pripisuje Pánovi a ani od neho už nečaká pomoc.

Am 6,12 - Hnať kone do behu po skalách a na voloch orať more znamená prevrátiť prirodzený poriadok. Podobne prevrátili Izraeliti mravný poriadok.

Am 6,14 - Emat pozri Iz 10,9; porov. 1 Kr 8,65. Potok púšte je asi dnešný Wádiel Hasá medzi Moabskom a Edomskom.