阿摩司書 8
1 主耶和華又指示我一件事：我看見一筐夏天的果子。
This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, a basket of summer fruit!
2 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。」
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 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。」
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 你們這些要吞吃窮乏人、 使困苦人衰敗的，當聽我的話！
Listen to this, you who trample the needy and remove the poor of the land.
5 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，
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 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。
This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.”
7 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。
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their actions.”
8 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。
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 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。
“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 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。
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 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。
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。
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 當那日，美貌的處女 和少年的男子必因乾渴發昏。
In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint from thirst.
14 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。
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.”
