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هَكَذَا أَرَانِي ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ وَإِذَا سَلَّةٌ لِلْقِطَافِ. ١ 1
Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, —and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit.
فَقَالَ: «مَاذَا أَنْتَ رَاءٍ يَا عَامُوسُ؟» فَقُلْتُ: «سَلَّةً لِلْقِطَافِ». فَقَالَ لِي ٱلرَّبُّ: «قَدْ أَتَتِ ٱلنِّهَايَةُ عَلَى شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. لَا أَعُودُ أَصْفَحُ لَهُ بَعْدُ. ٢ 2
So then he said, What canst thou see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Yahweh unto me, The end hath come unto my people Israel, I will not again any more forgive them;
فَتَصِيرُ أَغَانِي ٱلْقَصْرِ وَلَاوِلَ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ، ٱلْجُثَثُ كَثِيرَةٌ يَطْرَحُونَهَا فِي كُلِّ مَوْضِعٍ بِٱلسُّكُوتِ». ٣ 3
but palace-songs, shall become howlings, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, —Many shall be the dead bodies in every place—cast forth—[with a] hush!
اِسْمَعُوا هَذَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُتَهَمِّمُونَ ٱلْمَسَاكِينَ لِكَيْ تُبِيدُوا بَائِسِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، ٤ 4
Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:
قَائِلِينَ: «مَتَى يَمْضِي رَأْسُ ٱلشَّهْرِ لِنَبِيعَ قَمْحًا، وَٱلسَّبْتُ لِنَعْرِضَ حِنْطَةً؟ لِنُصَغِّرَ ٱلْإِيفَةَ، وَنُكَبِّرَ ٱلشَّاقِلَ، وَنُعَوِّجَ مَوَازِينَ ٱلْغِشِّ. ٥ 5
Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights:
لِنَشْتَرِيَ ٱلضُّعَفَاءَ بِفِضَّةٍ، وَٱلْبَائِسَ بِنَعْلَيْنِ، وَنَبِيعَ نُفَايَةَ ٱلْقَمْحِ». ٦ 6
Who buy—for silver—the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes, —and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.
قَدْ أَقْسَمَ ٱلرَّبُّ بِفَخْرِ يَعْقُوبَ: «إِنِّي لَنْ أَنْسَى إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ جَمِيعَ أَعْمَالِهِمْ. ٧ 7
Sworn hath Yahweh, by the Excellency of Jacob, —Surely I will never forget any of their doings!
أَلَيْسَ مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذَا تَرْتَعِدُ ٱلْأَرْضُ، وَيَنُوحُ كُلُّ سَاكِنٍ فِيهَا، وَتَطْمُو كُلُّهَا كَنَهْرٍ، وَتَفِيضُ وَتَنْضُبُ كَنِيلِ مِصْرَ؟ ٨ 8
Is it not, for this, that the land, shall tremble? and shall mourn every inhabitant therein? Shall it not come up—like the Nile, all of it, and be tossed and subside like the river of Egypt?
وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَنِّي أُغَيِّبُ ٱلشَّمْسَ فِي ٱلظُّهْرِ، وَأُقْتِمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ فِي يَوْمِ نُورٍ، ٩ 9
Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon, —and will darken the earth on a day of brightness!
وَأُحَوِّلُ أَعْيَادَكُمْ نَوْحًا، وَجَمِيعَ أَغَانِيكُمْ مَرَاثِيَ، وَأُصْعِدُ عَلَى كُلِّ ٱلْأَحْقَاءِ مِسْحًا، وَعَلَى كُلِّ رَأْسٍ قَرَعَةً، وَأَجْعَلُهَا كَمَنَاحَةِ ٱلْوَحِيدِ وَآخِرَهَا يَوْمًا مُرًّا! ١٠ 10
So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up—on all loins—sackcloth, and upon every head—baldness, —and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, as a day of bitterness.
«هُوَذَا أَيَّامٌ تَأْتِي، يَقُولُ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أُرْسِلُ جُوعًا فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، لَا جُوعًا لِلْخُبْزِ، وَلَا عَطَشًا لِلْمَاءِ، بَلْ لِٱسْتِمَاعِ كَلِمَاتِ ٱلرَّبِّ. ١١ 11
Lo! days are coming, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will send a hunger throughout the land, —not a hunger for food, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Yahweh;
فَيَجُولُونَ مِنْ بَحْرٍ إِلَى بَحْرٍ، وَمِنَ ٱلشِّمَالِ إِلَى ٱلْمَشْرِقِ، يَتَطَوَّحُونَ لِيَطْلُبُوا كَلِمَةَ ٱلرَّبِّ فَلَا يَجِدُونَهَا. ١٢ 12
Therefore shall men rove about—from sea to sea, and from the north even unto sunrise, —they shall run to and fro—seeking the word of Yahweh, but shall not find [it].
فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ تَذْبُلُ بِٱلْعَطَشِ ٱلْعَذَارَى ٱلْجَمِيلَاتُ وَٱلْفِتْيَانُ، ١٣ 13
In that day, shall the fair virgins and the choice young men faint for thirst.
ٱلَّذِينَ يَحْلِفُونَ بِذَنْبِ ٱلسَّامِرَةِ، وَيَقُولُونَ: حَيٌّ إِلَهُكَ يَا دَانُ، وَحَيَّةٌ طَرِيقَةُ بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ. فَيَسْقُطُونَ وَلَا يَقُومُونَ بَعْدُ». ١٤ 14
They who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, As thy God, liveth, O Dan! and, As the Way of Beer-sheba, liveth, shall fall, and shall not rise any more.

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