Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
'Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them' — the judgment-oracle perfectly mirrors the crime in its consequence: those who extracted agricultural surplus from the poor will be denied the products of their own luxury construction. The 'hewn stone' houses represent Israelite upper-class affluence in the period of Jeroboam II's prosperity (c. 786–746 BC), confirmed by archaeological findings at Samaria. The verse belongs to Amos's sustained economic critique and has been widely applied in liberation theology and social ethics as a paradigm for prophetic condemnation of wealth built on the exploitation of the poor.
תרגומים נוספים
Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
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