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 Yahweh showed me. Look, 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。
He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
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。」
The songs of the temple will become wailings in that day —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— many dead bodies, they are thrown everywhere! Silence!”
4 壓榨窮人，使世上弱小絕跡的人哪! 你們應聽。
Listen to this, you who trample the needy and remove the poor of 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﹖
They say, “When will the new moon be over, so we can sell grain again? When will the Sabbath day be over, so that we can sell wheat? We will make the measure small and increase the price, as we cheat with false scales.
6 用銀錢購買窮人，以一雙鞋換取貧人，連麥糠也賣掉﹖」
This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.”
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。
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their actions.”
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 quake for this, and every one who lives in it mourn? All of it will rise up like the Nile River, and it will be tossed about and sink 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；
“It will come in that day —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— that I will make the sun set at noon, and I will darken the earth at 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。
I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and have baldness on every head. I will make it like mourning for an only son, and a bitter day to its end.
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。
Look, the days are coming —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Yahweh.
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。
They will stagger from sea to sea; they will run from the north to the east to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find 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 beautiful virgins and the young men will faint from thirst.
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 swear by the sin of Samaria and say, 'As your god lives, Dan,' and, 'As the way to Beersheba exists'— they will fall and never rise again.”
