Amos 8
1 Evo što mi pokaza Jahve Gospod: gle, kotarica zrela ploda:
The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.
2 “Što vidiš, Amose?” - upita me. “Kotaricu zrela ploda”, rekoh. Tada mi Jahve reče: “Moj narod izraelski dozreo je za propast; neću ga više štedjeti.
“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 I hramske će pjevačice jaukati toga dana - riječ je Jahve Gospoda - bit će mnoštvo trupla, svuda će se bacati.”
The singing women in the palace will howl on that day, says the Lord: Corpses everywhere, thrown out in silence.
4 Slušajte ovo, vi što gazite potrebnika i satirete uboge u zemlji!
Listen to this, you who trample on the needy, who oppress the poor of the earth,
5 Kažete: “Kad li će mlađak proći, da prodamo žito, i subota, da tržimo pšenicu. Smanjujuć' efu, povećavajući šekel, da varamo krivim mjerama:
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 da kupimo siromaha za novac, potrebita za sandale, i da prodajemo otražak od žita.
mixing the sweepings in with the wheat. Then we can buy the poor for money, the needy for a pair of shoes.
7 Zakle se Jahve Ponosom Jakovljevim: “Dovijeka neću zaboraviti nijednoga vašeg djela.”
Now the Lord has taken an oath by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds!
8 Neće l' se od toga zemlja potresti, protužiti svi njeni stanovnici, neće li se sva podići kao Nil, spustiti kao Rijeka egipatska?
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 “Toga ću dana - riječ je Jahve Gospoda - učiniti da sunce zapadne u podne, i pomračit ću zemlju u po bijela dana.
On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun set at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 Okrenut ću svetkovine vaše u kuknjavu i sve vaše pjevanje u tužaljku; obući ću u kostrijet svako bedro, oćelavit ću svaku glavu. Bit će kao kad se tuži za jedincem, i što ostane, bit će kao dan gorčine.”
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 “Evo, dani dolaze - riječ je Jahve Gospoda - kad ću poslati glad na zemlju, ne glad kruha ni žeđ vode, već slušanja riječi Jahvine.
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 Tumarat će od mora do mora, od sjevera do istoka potucati se ištući riječ Jahvinu, ali je neće naći.
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 U onaj će dan obamirati od žeđi lijepe djevojke i mladići.
In that day beautiful girls and strong young men will faint from thirst.
14 Koji se kunu Grijehom samarijskim i zaklinju se: 'Tako živ bio bog tvoj, Dane!' i: 'Tako živ bio Ljubimac tvoj, Beer Šebo!' oni će pasti i nikad ustati neće.”
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.
