عامُوس 8

١ 1 ثُمَّ أَرَانِي السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ فِي رُؤْيَا سَلَّةً لِقِطَافِ الثِّمَارِ.

This is what YHWH showed me: And look, a basket of summer fruit.

٢ 2 وَسَأَلَنِي: «مَاذَا تَرَى يَا عَامُوسُ؟» فَأَجَبْتُ: «سَلَّةً مَلِيئَةً بِثِمَارِ الصَّيْفِ النَّاضِجَةِ». فَقَالَ لِي الرَّبُّ: «لَقَدْ دَنَتْ نِهَايَةُ شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَلَنْ أَعْفُوَ عَنْهُمْ بَعْدُ.

He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then YHWH said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

٣ 3 فَتَتَحَوَّلُ أَغَانِي قُصُورِهِمْ إِلَى عَوِيلٍ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ، وَتَكْثُرُ الْجُثَثُ وَيَطْرَحُونَهَا فِي كُلِّ مَكَانٍ بِصَمْتٍ».

The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says YHWH. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

٤ 4 اسْتَمِعُوا هَذَا أَيُّهَا الدَّائِسُونَ عَلَى الْبَائِسِينَ، يَا مَنْ حَاوَلْتُمْ أَنْ تَقْضُوا عَلَى فُقَرَاءِ الأَرْضِ،

Hear this, you who trample the needy, and destroy the poor of the land,

٥ 5 قَائِلِينَ: «مَتَى يَنْقَضِي أَوَّلُ الشَّهْرِ حَتَّى نَبِيعَ الْقَمْحَ؟ مَتَى يَمْضِي السَّبْتُ لِنَعْرِضَ الْقَمْحَ فِي السُّوقِ، فَنَعْمَدَ إِلَى تَصْغِيرِ حَجْمِ مِكْيَالِ الإِيفَةِ وَنَرْفَعَ الأَسْعَارَ، وَنَسْتَعْمِلَ مِيزَاناً مَغْشُوشاً.

saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

٦ 6 لِنَشْتَرِيَ الْمِسْكِينَ بِقِطْعَةٍ مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ، وَالْبَائِسَ بِنَعْلَيْنِ، وَنَبِيعَ نُفَايَةَ الْقَمْحِ؟»

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

٧ 7 قَدْ أَقْسَمَ الرَّبُّ بِعِزَّةِ يَعْقُوبَ قَائِلاً: «لَنْ أَنْسَى شَيْئاً مِنْ مَسَاوِئِهِمْ.

YHWH has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.

٨ 8 ألا تَرْتَعِبُ الأَرْضُ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ ذَلِكَ، فَيَنُوحَ كُلُّ سَاكِنٍ فِيهَا، فَتَطْمُوَ كَنَهْرٍ، وَتَرْتَفِعَ وَتَنْخَفِضَ كَنِيلِ مِصْرَ؟

Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

٩ 9 وَيَقُولُ الرَّبُّ: فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ أَجْعَلُ الشَّمْسَ تَغْرُبُ عِنْدَ الظَّهِيرَةِ، وَأَغْمُرُ الأَرْضَ بِالظُّلْمَةِ فِي رَابِعَةِ النَّهَارِ.

It will happen in that day," says YHWH, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

١٠ 10 أُحَوِّلُ أَعْيَادَكُمْ إِلَى مَآتِمَ، وَأَغَانِيَكُمْ إِلَى مَرَاثٍ، وَأُلْبِسُكُمُ الْمُسُوحَ عَلَى أَحْقَائِكُمْ، وَأُفْشِي الصَّلَعَ فِي كُلِّ رَأْسٍ، فَتُصْبِحُ أَعْيَادُكُمْ كَمَنَاحَةٍ عَلَى وَحِيدٍ، وَنِهَايَتُهَا كَيَوْمٍ مُفْعَمٍ بِالْمَرَارَةِ.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

١١ 11 سَتَأْتِي أَيَّامٌ أَجْعَلُ فِيهَا الْمَجَاعَةَ تَنْتَشِرُ فِي الأَرْضِ، لَا مَجَاعَةً إِلَى الْخُبْزِ، وَلا ظَمَأً إِلَى الْمَاءِ إِنَّمَا لِسَمَاعِ كَلامِ الرَّبِّ، يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ.

Look, the days come," says YHWH, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of YHWH.

١٢ 12 فَيَهِيمُونَ مِنْ بَحْرٍ إِلَى بَحْرٍ، وَمِنَ الشِّمَالِ إِلَى الشَّرْقِ. يَذْهَبُونَ وَيَجِيئُونَ بَحْثاً عَنْ كَلِمَةِ الرَّبِّ وَلا يَحْظَوْنَ بِها.

They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of YHWH, and will not find it.

١٣ 13 فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ يُغْشَى عَلَى العَذَارَى الْجَمِيلاتِ وَالْفِتْيَانِ مِنْ فَرْطِ الظَّمَإِ.

In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.

١٤ 14 أَمَّا الَّذِينَ يُقْسِمُونَ بِأَوْثَانِ السَّامِرَةِ قَائِلِينَ: حَيٌّ إِلَهُكَ يَا دَانُ، وَحَيٌّ مَعْبُودُ بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ. هَؤُلاءِ يَسْقُطُونَ وَلا يَنْهَضُونَ أَبَداً ثَانِيَةً».

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."