Amos 8
1 Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
Zimene Ambuye Yehova anandionetsa ndi izi: dengu la zipatso zakupsa.
2 And He saith, 'What art thou seeing, Amos?' and I say, 'A basket of summer-fruit.' And Jehovah saith unto me: 'The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.
Iye anandifunsa kuti, “Amosi nʼchiyani ukuona?” Ine ndinayankha kuti, “Dengu la zipatso zakupsa.” Ndipo Yehova anati kwa ine, “Nthawi yachimaliziro yawakwanira anthu anga Aisraeli; sindidzawakhululukiranso.
3 And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw — hush!
“Tsiku limenelo,” Ambuye Yehova akulengeza kuti, “Nyimbo za mʼNyumba ya Mulungu zidzasanduka kulira kofuwula. Mitembo ya anthu idzachuluka, ndipo adzayiponya ponseponse! Kudzangoti zii!”
4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
Imvani izi, inu amene mumapondereza anthu osowa ndipo simulabadira anthu osauka a mʼdzikomu.
5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
Mumanena kuti, “Kodi chikondwerero cha mwezi watsopano chidzatha liti kuti tigulitse zinthu? Ndipo tsiku la Sabata litha liti kuti tigulitse tirigu, kuti tichepetse miyeso, kukweza mitengo kuti tibere anthu ndi miyeso ya chinyengo,
6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
tigule osauka ndi ndalama zasiliva ndi osowa powapatsa nsapato, tigulitse ngakhale mungu wa tirigu?”
7 Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: 'I forget not for ever any of their works.
Yehova amene Yakobo amamunyadira, walumbira kuti: Ine sindidzayiwala chilichonse chimene anachita.
8 For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.
“Kodi dziko silidzagwedezeka chifukwa cha zimenezi, ndi onse okhala mʼmenemo kulira mwachisoni? Dziko lonse lidzavunduka ngati mtsinje wa Nailo; lidzagwedezeka kenaka nʼkukhala bata ngati mtsinje wa ku Igupto.
9 And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,
“Tsiku limenelo,” Ambuye Yehova akunena kuti, “Ndidzadetsa dzuwa masana ndi kugwetsa mdima pa dziko lapansi dzuwa likuswa mtengo.
10 And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
Maphwando anu achipembedzo ndidzawasandutsa kulira kwa chisoni ndipo kuyimba kwanu konse ndidzakusandutsa maliro. Ndidzakuvekani chiguduli nonsenu ndi kumeta mipala mitu yanu. Nthawi imeneyo idzakhala ngati yolira mwana wamwamuna mmodzi yekhayo, ndipo tsikulo lidzakhala lowawa mpaka kutha kwake.
11 Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
“Nthawi ikubwera,” Ambuye Yehova akunena kuti, “Ndidzagwetsa njala mʼdziko lonse; osati njala ya chakudya kapena ludzu la madzi, koma njala yofuna kumva mawu a Yehova.
12 And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find.
Anthu azidzangoyendayenda kuchoka ku nyanja ina kupita ku nyanja ina. Azidzangoyendayenda kuchoka kumpoto kupita kummawa, kufunafuna mawu a Yehova, koma sadzawapeza.
13 In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.
“Tsiku limenelo “anamwali okongola ndi anyamata amphamvu adzakomoka ndi ludzu.
14 Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen — and rise not again!'
Onse amene amalumbira pa tchimo la Samariya, kapena kumanena kuti, ‘Iwe Dani, pali mulungu wako wamoyo,’ kapena, ‘Pali mulungu wamoyo wa ku Beeriseba.’ Iwowo adzagwa ndipo sadzadzukanso.”
