You who have forsaken Me,” declares the Lord,“ You keep going backward. So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am tired of relenting!

耶和华说：“你弃绝了我，转身退后；因此我伸手攻击你，毁坏你。我后悔甚不耐烦。

你弃绝了我，转身退后；因此我伸手攻击你，毁灭你，我已怜悯到厌烦了。这是耶和华说的。

你弃绝了我，转身退后；因此我伸手攻击你，毁灭你，我已怜悯到厌烦了。这是耶和华说的。

你背弃我，远离我，因此我要伸手攻击你，毁灭你，不再怜悯你。这是耶和华说的。

你离弃了我，你转身背着我；因此我要伸手攻击你，毁灭你，我不会再回心转意。”这是耶和华的宣告。

耶和華說：你棄絕了我，轉身退後；因此我伸手攻擊你，毀壞你。我後悔甚不耐煩。

你棄絕了我，轉身退後；因此我伸手攻擊你，毀滅你，我已憐憫到厭煩了。這是耶和華說的。

你棄絕了我，轉身退後；因此我伸手攻擊你，毀滅你，我已憐憫到厭煩了。這是耶和華說的。

你背棄我，遠離我，因此我要伸手攻擊你，毀滅你，不再憐憫你。這是耶和華說的。

你離棄了我，你轉身背著我；因此我要伸手攻擊你，毀滅你，我不會再回心轉意。”這是耶和華的宣告。

永恆主發神諭說：你擯棄了我，直轉身退後；因此我伸手攻擊你，殺滅你：我憐恤到不耐煩了。

耶和華曰、爾既棄我、背我而往、故我舉手、攻爾滅爾、我之回意、屢而憊矣、

耶和華又曰、爾違逆予、卻而不前、故我必舉手擊爾、滅爾殆盡、不可復忍、

主曰、爾已棄我、背我而去、故我舉手擊爾、殲滅爾、難復矜恤、難復矜恤原文作我倦於矜恤

You have rejected me,” declares the Lord.“ You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and destroy you; I am tired of holding back.

You have said no to me,” announces the Lord.“ You keep on turning away from me. So I will reach out and destroy you. I am tired of showing you pity.

You have rejected me, declares the Lord; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.

You have abandoned me and turned your back on me,” says the Lord.“ Therefore, I will raise my fist to destroy you. I am tired of always giving you another chance.

You have left me.” This is the LORD’s declaration.“ You have turned your back, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am tired of showing compassion.

You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,“ You have gone backward. Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of relenting!

Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.

You have left Me. This is the Lord’s declaration. You have turned your back, so I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you. I am tired of showing compassion.

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

I, the LORD, say:‘ You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh.“ You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they went backward and not forward.

“ So I will stretch out My hand against Judah And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will eliminate the remnant of Baal from this place, And the names of the idolatrous priests along with the other priests.

But they refused to pay attention, and turned a stubborn shoulder and plugged their ears from hearing.

Oh, sinful nation, People weighed down with guilt, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the Lord, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him.

So My people are determined to turn from Me. Though they call them to the One on high, None at all exalts Him.

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? Death, where are your thorns? Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in.“ Pour it out on the children in the street And on the gathering of young men together; For both husband and wife shall be taken, The old and the very old.

therefore, behold, I have reached out with My hand against you and I will give you as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and eliminate you from the lands. I will exterminate you. So you will know that I am the Lord.”

Furthermore, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,“ Son of man, behold, the house of Israel is saying,‘ The vision that he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’Therefore say to them,‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ None of My words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,” ’ ” declares the Lord God.

Hear, earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people, The fruit of their plans, Because they have not listened to My words, And as for My Law, they have rejected it also.

So the word of the Lord to them will be,“ Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

Have you not done this to yourself By your abandoning the Lord your God When He led you in the way?

But He, being compassionate, forgave their wrongdoing and did not destroy them; And often He restrained His anger And did not stir up all His wrath.So He remembered that they were only flesh, A wind that passes and does not return.How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness And grieved Him in the desert!

Why has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold on to deceit, They refuse to return.

And I will pronounce My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, since they have abandoned Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

“ But if the prophet is persuaded so that he speaks a word, it is I, the Lord, who have persuaded that prophet; and I will stretch out My hand against him and eliminate him from among My people Israel.

“ For My people have committed two evils: They have abandoned Me, The fountain of living waters, To carve out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That do not hold water.

The Lord relented of this.“ It shall not be,” said the Lord.So the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farmland.Then I said,“ Lord God, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”The Lord relented of this.“ This too shall not be,” said the Lord God.So He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.And the Lord said to me,“ What do you see, Amos?” And I said,“ A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,“ Behold I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will not spare them any longer.

Since Israel is stubborn Like a stubborn cow, Will the Lord now pasture them Like a lamb in a large field?

But if I say,“ I will not remember Him Nor speak anymore in His name,” Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am tired of holding it in, And I cannot endure it.

Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will punish you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to abandon the Lord your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of armies.