Amos Propheta 8
1 Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce uncinus pomorum.
The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.
2 Et dixit: Quid tu vides, Amos? Et dixi: Uncinum pomorum. Et dixit Dominus ad me: [Venit finis super populum meum Israël; non adjiciam ultra ut pertranseam eum.
‘What do you see, Amos?’ he asked. I replied, ‘A basket of ripe summer fruit.’ Then the Lord said to me: The time is ripe for my people Israel, I will no longer overlook their crimes.
3 Et stridebunt cardines templi in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: multi morientur; in omni loco projicietur silentium.]
The singing women in the palace will howl on that day, says the Lord: Corpses everywhere, thrown out in silence.
4 [Audite hoc, qui conteritis pauperem, et deficere facitis egenos terræ,
Listen to this, you who trample on the needy, who oppress the poor of the earth,
5 dicentes: Quando transibit mensis, et venundabimus merces? et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum, ut imminuamus mensuram, et augeamus siclum, et supponamus stateras dolosas,
saying: When will the feast of the new moon be over so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath ended so that we may offer wheat for sale? Reducing the measure and increasing the price, cheating with false scales,
6 ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperes pro calceamentis, et quisquilias frumenti vendamus?
mixing the sweepings in with the wheat. Then we can buy the poor for money, the needy for a pair of shoes.
7 Juravit Dominus in superbiam Jacob: Si oblitus fuero usque ad finem omnia opera eorum.
Now the Lord has taken an oath by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds!
8 Numquid super isto non commovebitur terra, et lugebit omnis habitator ejus, et ascendet quasi fluvius universus, et ejicicetur, et defluet, quasi rivus Ægypti?
Because of this won’t the land quake, and all its inhabitants mourn? Won’t the whole of it rise like the Nile, churn and subside like the Nile in Egypt?
9 Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: occidet sol in meridie, et tenebrescere faciam terram in die luminis:
On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun set at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 et convertam festivitates vestras in luctum, et omnia cantica vestra in planctum, et inducam super omne dorsum vestrum saccum, et super omne caput calvitium: et ponam eam quasi luctum unigeniti, et novissima ejus quasi diem amarum.
I will turn your feasts into mourning, all your songs into dirges. I will cause you to dress in sackcloth, every head shaved. I will make you mourn like you have lost your only son, all that happens will end in bitterness.
11 Ecce dies veniunt, dicet Dominus, et mittam famem in terram: non famem panis, neque sitim aquæ, sed audiendi verbum Domini.
The day is coming, says the Lord God, when I will send hunger in the land. Not a famine of bread or thirst for water, but for hearing the message of the Lord.
12 Et commovebuntur a mari usque ad mare, et ab aquilone usque ad orientem: circuibunt quærentes verbum Domini, et non invenient.
Then they will wander from sea to sea, from the north to the east, to seek a message from the Lord, but they will not find it.
13 In die illa deficient virgines pulchræ et adolescentes in siti,
In that day beautiful girls and strong young men will faint from thirst.
14 qui jurant in delicto Samariæ, et dicunt: Vivit Deus tuus, Dan, et vivit via Bersabee; et cadent, et non resurgent ultra.]
Those who take oaths by the shameful idol of Samaria, who swear, “As surely as your God lives, O Dan!” and, “By the sacred way to Beer-sheba!” – they will fall and never rise again.
