Ámos 8
1 Také mi ukázal Panovník Hospodin, a aj, byl koš ovoce letního.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 A řekl: Co ty vidíš, Amose? I řekl jsem: Koš ovoce letního. Opět mi řekl Hospodin: Přišeltě konec lidu mému Izraelskému, nebuduť již více promíjeti jemu.
He asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A basket of [very] ripe fruit.” He said, “That indicates that it almost the end for my Israeli people. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
3 Pročež kvíliti budou zpěvové chrámoví v ten den, praví Panovník Hospodin. Množství mrtvých, mlče, namece na všelijaké místo.
[Soon, ] instead of singing in the temple, they will be wailing. There will be corpses everywhere [HYP]. So, remain silent (OR, Everyone will be silent). [These things will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it!”
4 Slyštež to vy, kteříž sehlcujete chudého, abyste vyhladili nuzné z země,
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 Říkajíce: Skoro-liž pomine novměsíce, abychom prodávali obilé, a sobota, abychom otevřeli obilnice, abychom ujímali efi, a přivětšovali váhy, a faleš provodili vážkami falešnými,
You habitually say, “We wish that [RHQ] the new moon [festival] would end soon, in order that [restrictions on doing business during the festival will be ended] and we can sell grain. We wish that the Sabbath would end soon, in order that we will again be permitted to sell our wheat”— and [when you sell it], you charge a big price for it, and you cheat people by using scales that do not weigh correctly.
6 Kupujíce za peníze nuzné, a chudého za pár střevíců, nadto abychom plevy obilné prodávali?
You sell wheat that you have swept up from the floor, and as a result it is mixed with dirt. Those who are needy and poor [DOU] and who do not have money [to buy things], you cause them to become your slaves by buying them with the [small amount of] silver [with which you could buy] a pair of sandals!
7 Přisáhl Hospodin skrze důstojnost Jákobovu: Žeť se nezapomenu na věky na všecky skutky jejich.
Yahweh has declared, “Although you are very proud of [being descendants] [MTY] of Jacob, I solemnly declare that I will not forget the [evil things] that you have done.
8 Nad tím-liž by se netřásla i země, a nekvílil by každý, kdož přebývá na ní? Proto-liž by neměla vystoupiti všecka jako potok, a zachvácena i zatopena býti jako potokem Egyptským?
[Because of those evil things], your country will certainly [RHQ] soon be shaken, and all of you will mourn. [It will be as though] it will repeatedly rise and fall like [SIM] the Nile [River] that gets full of water [and overflows it banks] and then settles back into its riverbed.
9 Anobrž stane se v ten den, praví Panovník Hospodin, učiním, že slunce zajde o poledni, a uvedu tmy na zemi v jasný den.
On the day [when I punish my people], I will cause the sun to set at noontime, and the [entire] earth will be dark in the daytime.
10 A proměním svátky vaše v kvílení, a všecky zpěvy vaše v naříkání, a způsobím to, že bude na každých bedrách žíně, a na každé hlavě lysina, a bude v zemi této kvílení jako nad jednorozeným, a poslední věci její jako den hořkosti.
I will cause your [religious] celebrations to become times when you mourn; instead of singing, everyone will be weeping. Because of what I [will do], all of you will wear rough sackcloth and shave your heads [to show that you are sorrowing]. I will cause that time to be like when people mourn after an only son [has died]. All of you will be extremely sad all of that day.”
11 Aj, dnové jdou, dí Panovník Hospodin, že pošli hlad na zemi, ne hlad chleba, ani žízeň vody, ale slyšení slov Hospodinových,
And Yahweh our God says this: “It will [soon] be the time when I will cause something to be very scarce [MET] throughout the country. But it will not be a time when there is no food or water; it will instead be a time when there will be no messages from me for anyone to hear.
12 Tak že toulati se budou od moře až k moři, a od půlnoci až na východ běhati, hledajíce slova Hospodinova, však nenajdou.
People will stagger from the [Dead] Sea to the [Mediterranean] Sea, and wander from the north to the east, searching for a message from me, but there will not be any.
13 V ten čas umdlévati budou panny krásné, ano i mládenci tou žízní,
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Kteříž přisahají skrze ohavnost Samařskou, a říkají: Živť jest Bůh tvůj, ó Dan, a živa jest cesta Bersabé. I padnou, a nepovstanou více.
Those who (make oaths/solemnly promise to do something) using the names of their shameful gods of Samaria, and those who solemnly promise to do something [using the name of] the god of Dan, and those who solemnly promise to do something [using the name of] the god of Beersheba, will all die; and they will never live again.”
