Amos 8
1 Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, —and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit.
主耶和華又指示我一件事：我看見一筐夏天的果子。
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;
他說：「阿摩司啊，你看見甚麼？」我說：「看見一筐夏天的果子。」耶和華說：「我民以色列的結局到了，我必不再寬恕他們。」
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!
主耶和華說：「那日，殿中的詩歌變為哀號；必有許多屍首在各處拋棄，無人作聲。」
4 Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:
你們這些要吞吃窮乏人、 使困苦人衰敗的，當聽我的話！
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:
你們說：月朔幾時過去， 我們好賣糧； 安息日幾時過去， 我們好擺開麥子； 賣出用小升斗， 收銀用大戥子， 用詭詐的天平欺哄人，
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.
好用銀子買貧寒人， 用一雙鞋換窮乏人， 將壞了的麥子賣給人。
7 Sworn hath Yahweh, by the Excellency of Jacob, —Surely I will never forget any of their doings!
耶和華指着雅各的榮耀起誓說： 他們的一切行為，我必永遠不忘。
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?
地豈不因這事震動？ 其上的居民不也悲哀嗎？ 地必全然像尼羅河漲起， 如同埃及河湧上落下。
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!
主耶和華說：到那日， 我必使日頭在午間落下， 使地在白晝黑暗。
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.
我必使你們的節期變為悲哀， 歌曲變為哀歌。 眾人腰束麻布，頭上光禿， 使這場悲哀如喪獨生子， 至終如痛苦的日子一樣。
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;
主耶和華說：日子將到， 我必命饑荒降在地上。 人飢餓非因無餅，乾渴非因無水， 乃因不聽耶和華的話。
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].
他們必飄流，從這海到那海， 從北邊到東邊，往來奔跑， 尋求耶和華的話，卻尋不着。
13 In that day, shall the fair virgins and the choice young men faint for thirst.
當那日，美貌的處女 和少年的男子必因乾渴發昏。
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.
那指着撒馬利亞牛犢起誓的說： 但哪，我們指着你那裏的活神起誓； 又說：我們指着別是巴的神道起誓。 這些人都必仆倒，永不再起來。
