阿摩司书 8
1 主耶和华又指示我一件事：我看见一筐夏天的果子。
Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me: and, behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
2 他说：“阿摩司啊，你看见什么？”我说：“看见一筐夏天的果子。”耶和华说：“我民以色列的结局到了，我必不再宽恕他们。”
And he said, What dost thou see, 'Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come for my people Israel: I will not farther indulge them any more.
3 主耶和华说：“那日，殿中的诗歌变为哀号；必有许多尸首在各处抛弃，无人作声。”
And the songs of the temple shall become a wailing on that day, saith the Lord Eternal: many shall be the dead bodies; in every place shall men throw them down, [saying, ] Be silent.
4 你们这些要吞吃穷乏人、 使困苦人衰败的，当听我的话！
Hear this, O ye that are greedy to swallow the needy, and to ruin the poor of the land,
5 你们说：月朔几时过去， 我们好卖粮； 安息日几时过去， 我们好摆开麦子； 卖出用小升斗， 收银用大戥子， 用诡诈的天平欺哄人，
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell provision? and the sabbath, that we may open the corn-warehouses, making the ephah small, and increasing the shekel, and cheating with deceitful balances?
6 好用银子买贫寒人， 用一双鞋换穷乏人， 将坏了的麦子卖给人。
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the corn?
7 耶和华指着雅各的荣耀起誓说： 他们的一切行为，我必永远不忘。
Sworn hath the Lord by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will not forget to eternity all their works.
8 地岂不因这事震动？ 其上的居民不也悲哀吗？ 地必全然像尼罗河涨起， 如同埃及河涌上落下。
Shall because of this the land not tremble, and mourn every one that dwelleth therein? and shall it not rise up like a stream wholly, and roll onward and sink again like the stream of Egypt?
9 主耶和华说：到那日， 我必使日头在午间落下， 使地在白昼黑暗。
And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord Eternal, that I will cause the sun to set at noon, and I will bring darkness over the earth on a bright day;
10 我必使你们的节期变为悲哀， 歌曲变为哀歌。 众人腰束麻布，头上光秃， 使这场悲哀如丧独生子， 至终如痛苦的日子一样。
And I will change your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations; and I will bring upon all loins sackcloth, and upon every head baldness; and I will cause [the land] to mourn as one doth for an only son, and its end to be as a day of bitter [complaint].
11 主耶和华说：日子将到， 我必命饥荒降在地上。 人饥饿非因无饼，干渴非因无水， 乃因不听耶和华的话。
Behold, days are coming, saith the Lord Eternal, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but to hear the words of the Lord:
12 他们必飘流，从这海到那海， 从北边到东边，往来奔跑， 寻求耶和华的话，却寻不着。
And they will wander about from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they will roam about to seek the word of the Lord; but they shall not find it.
13 当那日，美貌的处女 和少年的男子必因干渴发昏。
On that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
14 那指着撒马利亚牛犊起誓的说： 但哪，我们指着你那里的活神起誓； 又说：我们指着别是巴的神道起誓。 这些人都必仆倒，永不再起来。
Those that swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, As thy god liveth, O Dan; and, As liveth the worshipped idol of Beer-sheba', —yea, they shall fall, and never rise up again.
