عَامُوس 8

١ 1 هَكَذَا أَرَانِي ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ وَإِذَا سَلَّةٌ لِلْقِطَافِ.

This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw a basket of fruit.

٢ 2 فَقَالَ: «مَاذَا أَنْتَ رَاءٍ يَا عَامُوسُ؟» فَقُلْتُ: «سَلَّةً لِلْقِطَافِ». فَقَالَ لِي ٱلرَّبُّ: «قَدْ أَتَتِ ٱلنِّهَايَةُ عَلَى شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. لَا أَعُودُ أَصْفَحُ لَهُ بَعْدُ.

He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of fruit.” Then the Lord told me, “This is the end of my people Israel! I won't ignore their sins anymore.

٣ 3 فَتَصِيرُ أَغَانِي ٱلْقَصْرِ وَلَاوِلَ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ، ٱلْجُثَثُ كَثِيرَةٌ يَطْرَحُونَهَا فِي كُلِّ مَوْضِعٍ بِٱلسُّكُوتِ».

On that day the Temple songs will become sorrowful wailing. There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Silence!” declares the Lord.

٤ 4 اِسْمَعُوا هَذَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُتَهَمِّمُونَ ٱلْمَسَاكِينَ لِكَيْ تُبِيدُوا بَائِسِي ٱلْأَرْضِ،

Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.

٥ 5 قَائِلِينَ: «مَتَى يَمْضِي رَأْسُ ٱلشَّهْرِ لِنَبِيعَ قَمْحًا، وَٱلسَّبْتُ لِنَعْرِضَ حِنْطَةً؟ لِنُصَغِّرَ ٱلْإِيفَةَ، وَنُكَبِّرَ ٱلشَّاقِلَ، وَنُعَوِّجَ مَوَازِينَ ٱلْغِشِّ.

You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?”

٦ 6 لِنَشْتَرِيَ ٱلضُّعَفَاءَ بِفِضَّةٍ، وَٱلْبَائِسَ بِنَعْلَيْنِ، وَنَبِيعَ نُفَايَةَ ٱلْقَمْحِ».

You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.

٧ 7 قَدْ أَقْسَمَ ٱلرَّبُّ بِفَخْرِ يَعْقُوبَ: «إِنِّي لَنْ أَنْسَى إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ جَمِيعَ أَعْمَالِهِمْ.

The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.

٨ 8 أَلَيْسَ مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذَا تَرْتَعِدُ ٱلْأَرْضُ، وَيَنُوحُ كُلُّ سَاكِنٍ فِيهَا، وَتَطْمُو كُلُّهَا كَنَهْرٍ، وَتَفِيضُ وَتَنْضُبُ كَنِيلِ مِصْرَ؟

Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile river in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again.

٩ 9 وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَنِّي أُغَيِّبُ ٱلشَّمْسَ فِي ٱلظُّهْرِ، وَأُقْتِمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ فِي يَوْمِ نُورٍ،

On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime.

١٠ 10 وَأُحَوِّلُ أَعْيَادَكُمْ نَوْحًا، وَجَمِيعَ أَغَانِيكُمْ مَرَاثِيَ، وَأُصْعِدُ عَلَى كُلِّ ٱلْأَحْقَاءِ مِسْحًا، وَعَلَى كُلِّ رَأْسٍ قَرَعَةً، وَأَجْعَلُهَا كَمَنَاحَةِ ٱلْوَحِيدِ وَآخِرَهَا يَوْمًا مُرًّا!

I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.

١١ 11 «هُوَذَا أَيَّامٌ تَأْتِي، يَقُولُ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أُرْسِلُ جُوعًا فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، لَا جُوعًا لِلْخُبْزِ، وَلَا عَطَشًا لِلْمَاءِ، بَلْ لِٱسْتِمَاعِ كَلِمَاتِ ٱلرَّبِّ.

The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.

١٢ 12 فَيَجُولُونَ مِنْ بَحْرٍ إِلَى بَحْرٍ، وَمِنَ ٱلشِّمَالِ إِلَى ٱلْمَشْرِقِ، يَتَطَوَّحُونَ لِيَطْلُبُوا كَلِمَةَ ٱلرَّبِّ فَلَا يَجِدُونَهَا.

People will wander from sea to sea, from north to east, running to and fro searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

١٣ 13 فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ تَذْبُلُ بِٱلْعَطَشِ ٱلْعَذَارَى ٱلْجَمِيلَاتُ وَٱلْفِتْيَانُ،

On that day, even the beautiful girls and healthy young men will collapse from thirst.

١٤ 14 ٱلَّذِينَ يَحْلِفُونَ بِذَنْبِ ٱلسَّامِرَةِ، وَيَقُولُونَ: حَيٌّ إِلَهُكَ يَا دَانُ، وَحَيَّةٌ طَرِيقَةُ بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ. فَيَسْقُطُونَ وَلَا يَقُومُونَ بَعْدُ».

Those who swear by the disgraceful idols of Samaria, who take oaths like, “By the life of your god, Dan,” or “A pilgrimage to the god of Beersheba”—they will fall, and never rise again.