Amos 8
1 Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Haec ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce uncinus pomorum.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Et dixit: Quid tu vides Amos? Et dixi: Uncinum pomorum. Et dixit Dominus ad me: Venit finis super populum meum Israel: non adiiciam ultra ut pertranseam eum.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
Et stridebunt cardines templi in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: multi morientur: in omni loco proiicietur silentium.
4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Audite hoc qui conteritis pauperem, et deficere facitis egenos terrae,
5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
dicentes: Quando transibit messis, et venundabimus merces: et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum: ut imminuamus mensuram, et augeamus siclum, et supponamus stateras dolosas,
6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.
ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperes pro calceamentis, et quisquilias frumenti vendamus?
7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Iuravit Dominus in superbiam Iacob: Si oblitus fuero usque ad finem omnia opera eorum.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Numquid super isto non commovebitur terra, et lugebit omnis habitator eius: et ascendet quasi fluvius universus, et eiicicetur, et defluet quasi rivus Aegypti?
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus: occidet sol in meridie, et tenebrescere faciam terram in die luminis:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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 eius quasi diem amarum.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
Ecce dies veniunt, dicet Dominus: et mittam famem in terram: non famem panis, neque sitim aquae, sed audiendi verbum Domini.
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Et commovebuntur a Mari usque ad mare, et ab Aquilone usque ad Orientem: circuibunt quaerentes verbum Domini, et non invenient.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
In die illa deficient virgines pulchrae et adolescentes in siti.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy God, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Qui iurant in delicto Samariae, et dicunt: Vivit Deus tuus Dan: et vivit via Bersabee, et cadent, et non resurgent ultra.
