阿摩司書 8
1 [神視四：果籃]吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，有一籃熟果子。
This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
2 上主說：「亞毛斯，你看見了什麼﹖」我答說：「一籃熟果子。」上主又向我說：「我百姓以色列的結局已成熟，我不再放過她。
And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.
3 在那一天，王宮中的歌女必要哀號──吾主上主的斷語──屍體成堆，拋在各處，鴉雀無聲。」
And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.
4 壓榨窮人，使世上弱小絕跡的人哪! 你們應聽。
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
5 你們說：「月朔幾時才經過去，好讓我們賣五榖﹖安息日幾時才過去，好讓我們打開糧倉，縮小「厄法，」加重「協刻爾，」用假秤欺人﹖
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
6 用銀錢購買窮人，以一雙鞋換取貧人，連麥糠也賣掉﹖」
Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
7 上主指著雅各伯的誇耀說：「我永不會忘了你們的所作所為。
The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.
8 難道不是因此大地才震動，地上 居民才悲號，全地氾濫有如尼羅，退落有如埃及大河﹖
Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.
9 在那一天──吾主上主的斷語──我必使太陽在中午落下，使大地白畫變為黑暗；
And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
10 使你們的喜慶變為喪事，使你們的一切樂曲變為哀歌，使你們都腰繫苦衣，頭都剃光；使你們哀悼，如哀悼獨生子，使那一天紿終是愁苦的日子。
Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
11 看，那日子一來臨──吾主上主的斷語──我必使飢餓臨於此地，汞是對食物的飢餓，也不是對水的飢渴，而是對聽上主的話的飢渴。
See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.
12 他們必由這海走到那海，由北至東，去尋求上主的話，卻尋不到。
And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.
13 那一天，美麗的處女和健壯的青年，必因饑渴而暈眩。
In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.
14 那些指著撒馬黎雅的罪過起誓，那些說：「丹，你的神永在，」或說：「貝爾舍巴，你的護守神永在」的人，必要跌倒，再不能起來。
Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
