Amos 2:6 God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Israel —make that four—I’m not putting up with them any longer. They buy and sell upstanding people. Peopl...

2:6 MSG

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The Message - God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Israel —make that four—I’m not putting up with them any longer. They buy and sell upstanding people. People for them are only things—ways of making money. They’d sell a poor man for a pair of shoes. They’d sell their own grandmother! They grind the penniless into the dirt, shove the luckless into the ditch. Everyone and his brother sleeps with the ‘sacred whore’— a sacrilege against my Holy Name. Stuff they’ve extorted from the poor is piled up at the shrine of their god, While they sit around drinking wine they’ve conned from their victims.
新标点和合本 - 耶和华如此说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他们的刑罚；因他们为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 耶和华如此说： “以色列三番四次犯罪，为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人，我必不撤销对它的惩罚。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 耶和华如此说： “以色列三番四次犯罪，为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人，我必不撤销对它的惩罚。
当代译本 - 耶和华说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不收回对他们的惩罚，因为他们为了银子卖掉义人，为了一双鞋卖掉穷人。
圣经新译本 - “耶和华这样说： ‘以色列三番四次犯罪，我必不收回惩罚他的命令；因为他为了银子卖义人，为了一双鞋卖穷人。
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华如此说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他们的刑罚，因他们为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人。
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华如此说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他们的刑罚；因他们为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人。
New International Version - This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.
New International Reader's Version - The Lord says, “The people of Israel have sinned again and again. So I will judge them. They sell into slavery those who have done no wrong. They trade needy people for a mere pair of sandals.
English Standard Version - Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—
New Living Translation - This is what the Lord says: “The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They sell honorable people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.
Christian Standard Bible - The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
New American Standard Bible - This is what the Lord says: “For three offenses of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals.
New King James Version - Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.
Amplified Bible - Thus says the Lord, “For three transgressions of Israel and for four (multiplied delinquencies) I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it, Because they sell the righteous and innocent for silver And the needy for the price of a pair of sandals.
American Standard Version - Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—
King James Version - Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
New English Translation - This is what the Lord says: “Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.
World English Bible - Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
新標點和合本 - 耶和華如此說：以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰；因他們為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 耶和華如此說：「以色列三番四次犯罪，為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人，我必不撤銷對它的懲罰。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 耶和華如此說：「以色列三番四次犯罪，為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人，我必不撤銷對它的懲罰。
當代譯本 - 耶和華說：「以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不收回對他們的懲罰，因為他們為了銀子賣掉義人，為了一雙鞋賣掉窮人。
聖經新譯本 - “耶和華這樣說： ‘以色列三番四次犯罪，我必不收回懲罰他的命令；因為他為了銀子賣義人，為了一雙鞋賣窮人。
呂振中譯本 - 永恆主這麼說：『以色列三番四次地悖逆，我必不收回成命，因為他們為了銀子而出賣義人，為了一雙鞋而出賣窮人。
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華如此說：「以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰，因他們為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人。
文理和合譯本 - 耶和華曰、以色列干罪、至三至四、我不挽回厥罰、以其鬻義人而得銀、鬻貧民以易屨也、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華又曰、以色列犯罪、至三至四、更鬻義人以得金、以貧者易履、故我必罰其罪、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主如是云、以色列人犯罪、至三至四、更為利鬻義人、為履一雙售貧者、故我降罰以報之、必不挽回、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así dice el Señor: «Los delitos de Israel han llegado a su colmo; por tanto, no revocaré su castigo: Venden al justo por monedas, y al necesitado, por un par de sandalias.
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “이스라엘의 서너 가지 죄에 대하여 내가 내 분노를 돌이키지 않겠다. 이것은 그 백성이 은을 위해 의로운 자를 팔고 신 한 켤레를 위해서 가난한 자를 팔며
Новый Русский Перевод - Так говорит Господь: – За три греха Израиля и за четыре не отвращу Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нуждающегося – за пару сандалий.
Восточный перевод - Так говорит Вечный: – Исраил грех добавляет ко греху – Я не отвращу от него Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нищего – за пару сандалий.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Так говорит Вечный: – Исраил грех добавляет ко греху – Я не отвращу от него Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нищего – за пару сандалий.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Так говорит Вечный: – Исроил грех добавляет ко греху – Я не отвращу от него Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нищего – за пару сандалий.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - L’Eternel dit ceci : Israël a commis ╵de nombreux crimes ; il a dépassé les limites. ╵Voilà pourquoi ╵je ne reviendrai pas ╵sur l’arrêt que j’ai pris, car pour un pot-de-vin ╵ils vendent l’innocent, et l’indigent ╵pour une paire de sandales.
リビングバイブル - 主はこう言います。「イスラエルの民は何度もくり返して罪を犯し、わたしはそのことを忘れない。もうこれ以上、処罰を猶予しない。彼らはわいろを取って公正な裁判を曲げ、借金を返せない貧しい者を奴隷に売ったからだ。それも、たったのくつ一足分の代金のために。
Nova Versão Internacional - Assim diz o Senhor: “Por três transgressões de Israel, e ainda mais por quatro, não anularei o castigo. Vendem por prata o justo, e por um par de sandálias o pobre.
Hoffnung für alle - So spricht der Herr: Die Leute von Israel begehen ein abscheuliches Verbrechen nach dem anderen. Das werde ich nicht ungestraft lassen! Ehrbare Menschen, die ihnen Geld schulden, verkaufen sie in die Sklaverei, ja, sie verkaufen einen Armen schon, wenn er ein Paar Schuhe nicht bezahlen kann!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đây là điều Chúa Hằng Hữu phán: “Dân tộc Ít-ra-ên phạm tội quá nhiều, nên Ta phải trừng phạt, không dung thứ được nữa! Chúng bán người chính trực lấy bạc và bán người khốn cùng vì một đôi dép.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าตรัสว่า “เนื่องจากอิสราเอลทำบาปซ้ำแล้วซ้ำเล่าสามสี่ครั้ง เราจึงไม่หายโกรธ เขาขายผู้ชอบธรรมแลกกับเงิน และขายคนขัดสนแลกกับรองเท้าคู่เดียว
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระผู้เป็นเจ้ากล่าวดังนี้ “อิสราเอลกระทำบาปซ้ำแล้วซ้ำเล่า เราจะไม่เปลี่ยนใจในการลงโทษ เพราะพวกเขาขายผู้มีความชอบธรรมเพื่อแลกกับเงิน และขายผู้ยากไร้เพื่อแลกกับรองเท้าเพียงคู่เดียว

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Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah started whoring while she was still mine. She lusted after Assyrians as lovers: military men smartly uniformed in blue, ambassadors and governors, good-looking young men mounted on fine horses. Her lust was unrestrained. She was a whore to the Assyrian elite. She compounded her filth with the idols of those to whom she gave herself in lust. She never slowed down. The whoring she began while young in Egypt she continued, sleeping with men who played with her breasts and spent their lust on her.
Ezekiel 23:9 - “So I left her to her Assyrian lovers, for whom she was so obsessed with lust. They ripped off her clothes, took away her children, and then, the final indignity, killed her. Among women her name became Shame—history’s judgment on her.
Hosea 7:8 - “Ephraim mingles with the pagans, dissipating himself. Ephraim is half-baked. Strangers suck him dry but he doesn’t even notice. His hair has turned gray— he doesn’t notice. Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, Israel’s a public disgrace. Israel lumbers along oblivious to God, despite all the signs, ignoring God.
Hosea 4:1 - Attention all Israelites! God’s Message! God indicts the whole population: “No one is faithful. No one loves. No one knows the first thing about God. All this cussing and lying and killing, theft and loose sex, sheer anarchy, one murder after another! And because of all this, the very land itself weeps and everything in it is grief-stricken— animals in the fields and birds on the wing, even the fish in the sea are listless, lifeless. * * *
Amos 6:3 - Woe to you who are rushing headlong to disaster! Catastrophe is just around the corner! Woe to those who live in luxury and expect everyone else to serve them! Woe to those who live only for today, indifferent to the fate of others! Woe to the playboys, the playgirls, who think life is a party held just for them! Woe to those addicted to feeling good—life without pain! those obsessed with looking good—life without wrinkles! They could not care less about their country going to ruin.
Amos 6:7 - But here’s what’s really coming: a forced march into exile. They’ll leave the country whining, a rag-tag bunch of good-for-nothings.
2 Kings 18:12 - All this happened because they wouldn’t listen to the voice of their God and treated his covenant with careless contempt. They refused either to listen or do a word of what Moses, the servant of God, commanded.
Amos 8:4 - Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak, you who treat poor people as less than nothing, Who say, “When’s my next paycheck coming so I can go out and live it up? How long till the weekend when I can go out and have a good time?” Who give little and take much, and never do an honest day’s work. You exploit the poor, using them— and then, when they’re used up, you discard them.
Hosea 4:11 - “Wine and whiskey leave my people in a stupor. They ask questions of a dead tree, expect answers from a sturdy walking stick. Drunk on sex, they can’t find their way home. They’ve replaced their God with their genitals. They worship on the tops of mountains, make a picnic out of religion. Under the oaks and elms on the hills they stretch out and take it easy. Before you know it, your daughters are whores and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. But I’m not going after your whoring daughters or the adulterous wives of your sons. It’s the men who pick up the whores that I’m after, the men who worship at the holy whorehouses— a stupid people, ruined by whores! * * *
2 Kings 17:7 - The exile came about because of sin: The children of Israel sinned against God, their God, who had delivered them from Egypt and the brutal oppression of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They took up with other gods, fell in with the ways of life of the pagan nations God had chased off, and went along with whatever their kings did. They did all kinds of things on the sly, things offensive to their God, then openly and shamelessly built local sex-and-religion shrines at every available site. They set up their sex-and-religion symbols at practically every crossroads. Everywhere you looked there was smoke from their pagan offerings to the deities—the identical offerings that had gotten the pagan nations off into exile. They had accumulated a long list of evil actions and God was fed up, fed up with their persistent worship of gods carved out of deadwood or shaped out of clay, even though God had plainly said, “Don’t do this—ever!”
2 Kings 17:13 - God had taken a stand against Israel and Judah, speaking clearly through countless holy prophets and seers time and time again, “Turn away from your evil way of life. Do what I tell you and have been telling you in The Revelation I gave your ancestors and of which I’ve kept reminding you ever since through my servants the prophets.”
2 Kings 17:14 - But they wouldn’t listen. If anything, they were even more bullheaded than their stubborn ancestors, if that’s possible. They were contemptuous of his instructions, the solemn and holy covenant he had made with their ancestors, and of his repeated reminders and warnings. They lived a “nothing” life and became “nothings”—just like the pagan peoples all around them. They were well-warned: God said, “Don’t!” but they did it anyway.
2 Kings 17:16 - They threw out everything God, their God, had told them, and replaced him with two statue-gods shaped like bull-calves and then a phallic pole for the whore goddess Asherah. They worshiped cosmic forces—sky gods and goddesses—and frequented the sex-and-religion shrines of Baal. They even sank so low as to offer their own sons and daughters as sacrificial burnt offerings! They indulged in all the black arts of magic and sorcery. In short, they prostituted themselves to every kind of evil available to them. And God had had enough.
2 Kings 17:18 - God was so thoroughly angry that he got rid of them, got them out of the country for good until only one tribe was left—Judah. (Judah, actually, wasn’t much better, for Judah also failed to keep God’s commands, falling into the same way of life that Israel had adopted.) God rejected everyone connected with Israel, made life hard for them, and permitted anyone with a mind to exploit them to do so. And then this final No as he threw them out of his sight.
Hosea 8:4 - “They crown kings, but without asking me. They set up princes but don’t let me in on it. Instead, they make idols, using silver and gold, idols that will be their ruin. Throw that gold calf-god on the trash heap, Samaria! I’m seething with anger against that rubbish! How long before they shape up? And they’re Israelites! A sculptor made that thing— it’s not God. That Samaritan calf will be broken to bits. Look at them! Planting wind-seeds, they’ll harvest tornadoes. Wheat with no head produces no flour. And even if it did, strangers would gulp it down. Israel is swallowed up and spit out. Among the pagans they’re a piece of junk. They trotted off to Assyria: Why, even wild donkeys stick to their own kind, but donkey-Ephraim goes out and pays to get lovers. Now, because of their whoring life among the pagans, I’m going to gather them together and confront them. They’re going to reap the consequences soon, feel what it’s like to be oppressed by the big king.
Micah 6:10 - “Do you expect me to overlook obscene wealth you’ve piled up by cheating and fraud? Do you think I’ll tolerate shady deals and shifty scheming? I’m tired of the violent rich bullying their way with bluffs and lies. I’m fed up. Beginning now, you’re finished. You’ll pay for your sins down to your last cent. No matter how much you get, it will never be enough— hollow stomachs, empty hearts. No matter how hard you work, you’ll have nothing to show for it— bankrupt lives, wasted souls. You’ll plant grass but never get a lawn. You’ll make jelly but never spread it on your bread. You’ll press apples but never drink the cider. You have lived by the standards of your king, Omri, the decadent lifestyle of the family of Ahab. Because you’ve slavishly followed their fashions, I’m forcing you into bankruptcy. Your way of life will be laughed at, a tasteless joke. Your lives will be derided as futile and fake.”

逐节对照

交叉引用

The Message - God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Israel —make that four—I’m not putting up with them any longer. They buy and sell upstanding people. People for them are only things—ways of making money. They’d sell a poor man for a pair of shoes. They’d sell their own grandmother! They grind the penniless into the dirt, shove the luckless into the ditch. Everyone and his brother sleeps with the ‘sacred whore’— a sacrilege against my Holy Name. Stuff they’ve extorted from the poor is piled up at the shrine of their god, While they sit around drinking wine they’ve conned from their victims.
新标点和合本 - 耶和华如此说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他们的刑罚；因他们为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 耶和华如此说： “以色列三番四次犯罪，为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人，我必不撤销对它的惩罚。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 耶和华如此说： “以色列三番四次犯罪，为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人，我必不撤销对它的惩罚。
当代译本 - 耶和华说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不收回对他们的惩罚，因为他们为了银子卖掉义人，为了一双鞋卖掉穷人。
圣经新译本 - “耶和华这样说： ‘以色列三番四次犯罪，我必不收回惩罚他的命令；因为他为了银子卖义人，为了一双鞋卖穷人。
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华如此说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他们的刑罚，因他们为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人。
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华如此说： “以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他们的刑罚；因他们为银子卖了义人，为一双鞋卖了穷人。
New International Version - This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.
New International Reader's Version - The Lord says, “The people of Israel have sinned again and again. So I will judge them. They sell into slavery those who have done no wrong. They trade needy people for a mere pair of sandals.
English Standard Version - Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—
New Living Translation - This is what the Lord says: “The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They sell honorable people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.
Christian Standard Bible - The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
New American Standard Bible - This is what the Lord says: “For three offenses of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals.
New King James Version - Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.
Amplified Bible - Thus says the Lord, “For three transgressions of Israel and for four (multiplied delinquencies) I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it, Because they sell the righteous and innocent for silver And the needy for the price of a pair of sandals.
American Standard Version - Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—
King James Version - Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
New English Translation - This is what the Lord says: “Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.
World English Bible - Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
新標點和合本 - 耶和華如此說：以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰；因他們為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 耶和華如此說：「以色列三番四次犯罪，為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人，我必不撤銷對它的懲罰。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 耶和華如此說：「以色列三番四次犯罪，為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人，我必不撤銷對它的懲罰。
當代譯本 - 耶和華說：「以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不收回對他們的懲罰，因為他們為了銀子賣掉義人，為了一雙鞋賣掉窮人。
聖經新譯本 - “耶和華這樣說： ‘以色列三番四次犯罪，我必不收回懲罰他的命令；因為他為了銀子賣義人，為了一雙鞋賣窮人。
呂振中譯本 - 永恆主這麼說：『以色列三番四次地悖逆，我必不收回成命，因為他們為了銀子而出賣義人，為了一雙鞋而出賣窮人。
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華如此說：「以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰，因他們為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人。
文理和合譯本 - 耶和華曰、以色列干罪、至三至四、我不挽回厥罰、以其鬻義人而得銀、鬻貧民以易屨也、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華又曰、以色列犯罪、至三至四、更鬻義人以得金、以貧者易履、故我必罰其罪、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主如是云、以色列人犯罪、至三至四、更為利鬻義人、為履一雙售貧者、故我降罰以報之、必不挽回、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así dice el Señor: «Los delitos de Israel han llegado a su colmo; por tanto, no revocaré su castigo: Venden al justo por monedas, y al necesitado, por un par de sandalias.
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “이스라엘의 서너 가지 죄에 대하여 내가 내 분노를 돌이키지 않겠다. 이것은 그 백성이 은을 위해 의로운 자를 팔고 신 한 켤레를 위해서 가난한 자를 팔며
Новый Русский Перевод - Так говорит Господь: – За три греха Израиля и за четыре не отвращу Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нуждающегося – за пару сандалий.
Восточный перевод - Так говорит Вечный: – Исраил грех добавляет ко греху – Я не отвращу от него Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нищего – за пару сандалий.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Так говорит Вечный: – Исраил грех добавляет ко греху – Я не отвращу от него Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нищего – за пару сандалий.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Так говорит Вечный: – Исроил грех добавляет ко греху – Я не отвращу от него Мой гнев. Они продают праведного за серебро и нищего – за пару сандалий.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - L’Eternel dit ceci : Israël a commis ╵de nombreux crimes ; il a dépassé les limites. ╵Voilà pourquoi ╵je ne reviendrai pas ╵sur l’arrêt que j’ai pris, car pour un pot-de-vin ╵ils vendent l’innocent, et l’indigent ╵pour une paire de sandales.
リビングバイブル - 主はこう言います。「イスラエルの民は何度もくり返して罪を犯し、わたしはそのことを忘れない。もうこれ以上、処罰を猶予しない。彼らはわいろを取って公正な裁判を曲げ、借金を返せない貧しい者を奴隷に売ったからだ。それも、たったのくつ一足分の代金のために。
Nova Versão Internacional - Assim diz o Senhor: “Por três transgressões de Israel, e ainda mais por quatro, não anularei o castigo. Vendem por prata o justo, e por um par de sandálias o pobre.
Hoffnung für alle - So spricht der Herr: Die Leute von Israel begehen ein abscheuliches Verbrechen nach dem anderen. Das werde ich nicht ungestraft lassen! Ehrbare Menschen, die ihnen Geld schulden, verkaufen sie in die Sklaverei, ja, sie verkaufen einen Armen schon, wenn er ein Paar Schuhe nicht bezahlen kann!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đây là điều Chúa Hằng Hữu phán: “Dân tộc Ít-ra-ên phạm tội quá nhiều, nên Ta phải trừng phạt, không dung thứ được nữa! Chúng bán người chính trực lấy bạc và bán người khốn cùng vì một đôi dép.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าตรัสว่า “เนื่องจากอิสราเอลทำบาปซ้ำแล้วซ้ำเล่าสามสี่ครั้ง เราจึงไม่หายโกรธ เขาขายผู้ชอบธรรมแลกกับเงิน และขายคนขัดสนแลกกับรองเท้าคู่เดียว
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระผู้เป็นเจ้ากล่าวดังนี้ “อิสราเอลกระทำบาปซ้ำแล้วซ้ำเล่า เราจะไม่เปลี่ยนใจในการลงโทษ เพราะพวกเขาขายผู้มีความชอบธรรมเพื่อแลกกับเงิน และขายผู้ยากไร้เพื่อแลกกับรองเท้าเพียงคู่เดียว

Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah started whoring while she was still mine. She lusted after Assyrians as lovers: military men smartly uniformed in blue, ambassadors and governors, good-looking young men mounted on fine horses. Her lust was unrestrained. She was a whore to the Assyrian elite. She compounded her filth with the idols of those to whom she gave herself in lust. She never slowed down. The whoring she began while young in Egypt she continued, sleeping with men who played with her breasts and spent their lust on her.
Ezekiel 23:9 - “So I left her to her Assyrian lovers, for whom she was so obsessed with lust. They ripped off her clothes, took away her children, and then, the final indignity, killed her. Among women her name became Shame—history’s judgment on her.
Hosea 7:8 - “Ephraim mingles with the pagans, dissipating himself. Ephraim is half-baked. Strangers suck him dry but he doesn’t even notice. His hair has turned gray— he doesn’t notice. Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, Israel’s a public disgrace. Israel lumbers along oblivious to God, despite all the signs, ignoring God.
Hosea 4:1 - Attention all Israelites! God’s Message! God indicts the whole population: “No one is faithful. No one loves. No one knows the first thing about God. All this cussing and lying and killing, theft and loose sex, sheer anarchy, one murder after another! And because of all this, the very land itself weeps and everything in it is grief-stricken— animals in the fields and birds on the wing, even the fish in the sea are listless, lifeless. * * *
Amos 6:3 - Woe to you who are rushing headlong to disaster! Catastrophe is just around the corner! Woe to those who live in luxury and expect everyone else to serve them! Woe to those who live only for today, indifferent to the fate of others! Woe to the playboys, the playgirls, who think life is a party held just for them! Woe to those addicted to feeling good—life without pain! those obsessed with looking good—life without wrinkles! They could not care less about their country going to ruin.
Amos 6:7 - But here’s what’s really coming: a forced march into exile. They’ll leave the country whining, a rag-tag bunch of good-for-nothings.
2 Kings 18:12 - All this happened because they wouldn’t listen to the voice of their God and treated his covenant with careless contempt. They refused either to listen or do a word of what Moses, the servant of God, commanded.
Amos 8:4 - Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak, you who treat poor people as less than nothing, Who say, “When’s my next paycheck coming so I can go out and live it up? How long till the weekend when I can go out and have a good time?” Who give little and take much, and never do an honest day’s work. You exploit the poor, using them— and then, when they’re used up, you discard them.
Hosea 4:11 - “Wine and whiskey leave my people in a stupor. They ask questions of a dead tree, expect answers from a sturdy walking stick. Drunk on sex, they can’t find their way home. They’ve replaced their God with their genitals. They worship on the tops of mountains, make a picnic out of religion. Under the oaks and elms on the hills they stretch out and take it easy. Before you know it, your daughters are whores and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. But I’m not going after your whoring daughters or the adulterous wives of your sons. It’s the men who pick up the whores that I’m after, the men who worship at the holy whorehouses— a stupid people, ruined by whores! * * *
2 Kings 17:7 - The exile came about because of sin: The children of Israel sinned against God, their God, who had delivered them from Egypt and the brutal oppression of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They took up with other gods, fell in with the ways of life of the pagan nations God had chased off, and went along with whatever their kings did. They did all kinds of things on the sly, things offensive to their God, then openly and shamelessly built local sex-and-religion shrines at every available site. They set up their sex-and-religion symbols at practically every crossroads. Everywhere you looked there was smoke from their pagan offerings to the deities—the identical offerings that had gotten the pagan nations off into exile. They had accumulated a long list of evil actions and God was fed up, fed up with their persistent worship of gods carved out of deadwood or shaped out of clay, even though God had plainly said, “Don’t do this—ever!”
2 Kings 17:13 - God had taken a stand against Israel and Judah, speaking clearly through countless holy prophets and seers time and time again, “Turn away from your evil way of life. Do what I tell you and have been telling you in The Revelation I gave your ancestors and of which I’ve kept reminding you ever since through my servants the prophets.”
2 Kings 17:14 - But they wouldn’t listen. If anything, they were even more bullheaded than their stubborn ancestors, if that’s possible. They were contemptuous of his instructions, the solemn and holy covenant he had made with their ancestors, and of his repeated reminders and warnings. They lived a “nothing” life and became “nothings”—just like the pagan peoples all around them. They were well-warned: God said, “Don’t!” but they did it anyway.
2 Kings 17:16 - They threw out everything God, their God, had told them, and replaced him with two statue-gods shaped like bull-calves and then a phallic pole for the whore goddess Asherah. They worshiped cosmic forces—sky gods and goddesses—and frequented the sex-and-religion shrines of Baal. They even sank so low as to offer their own sons and daughters as sacrificial burnt offerings! They indulged in all the black arts of magic and sorcery. In short, they prostituted themselves to every kind of evil available to them. And God had had enough.
2 Kings 17:18 - God was so thoroughly angry that he got rid of them, got them out of the country for good until only one tribe was left—Judah. (Judah, actually, wasn’t much better, for Judah also failed to keep God’s commands, falling into the same way of life that Israel had adopted.) God rejected everyone connected with Israel, made life hard for them, and permitted anyone with a mind to exploit them to do so. And then this final No as he threw them out of his sight.
Hosea 8:4 - “They crown kings, but without asking me. They set up princes but don’t let me in on it. Instead, they make idols, using silver and gold, idols that will be their ruin. Throw that gold calf-god on the trash heap, Samaria! I’m seething with anger against that rubbish! How long before they shape up? And they’re Israelites! A sculptor made that thing— it’s not God. That Samaritan calf will be broken to bits. Look at them! Planting wind-seeds, they’ll harvest tornadoes. Wheat with no head produces no flour. And even if it did, strangers would gulp it down. Israel is swallowed up and spit out. Among the pagans they’re a piece of junk. They trotted off to Assyria: Why, even wild donkeys stick to their own kind, but donkey-Ephraim goes out and pays to get lovers. Now, because of their whoring life among the pagans, I’m going to gather them together and confront them. They’re going to reap the consequences soon, feel what it’s like to be oppressed by the big king.
Micah 6:10 - “Do you expect me to overlook obscene wealth you’ve piled up by cheating and fraud? Do you think I’ll tolerate shady deals and shifty scheming? I’m tired of the violent rich bullying their way with bluffs and lies. I’m fed up. Beginning now, you’re finished. You’ll pay for your sins down to your last cent. No matter how much you get, it will never be enough— hollow stomachs, empty hearts. No matter how hard you work, you’ll have nothing to show for it— bankrupt lives, wasted souls. You’ll plant grass but never get a lawn. You’ll make jelly but never spread it on your bread. You’ll press apples but never drink the cider. You have lived by the standards of your king, Omri, the decadent lifestyle of the family of Ahab. Because you’ve slavishly followed their fashions, I’m forcing you into bankruptcy. Your way of life will be laughed at, a tasteless joke. Your lives will be derided as futile and fake.”