Amos 8
1 Saaledes lod den Herre, Herre mig se et Syn: Og se, en Kurv med Sommerfrugt;
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Og han sagde: Hvad ser du, Amos? og jeg sagde: En Kurv med Sommerfrugt; da sagde Herren til mig: Enden er kommen for mit Folk Israel, jeg vil ikke ydermere blive ved at skaane det.
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 Men Sangene i Paladset skulle blive til Hyl paia denne Dag, siger den Herre, Herre; der er mange døde Kroppe, paa alle Steder har man kastet dem hen — tys!
[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 Hører dette, I, som hige efter den fattige og efter at gøre Ende paa de ringe i Landet;
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 idet I sige: Naar vil Nymaanen gaa forbi, for at vi kunne sælge Korn, og Sabbaten, for at vi kunne lade op for Kornforraadet; at vi kunne gøre Efaen liden, og Sekelen stor og forvende Vægtskaalene med Svig?
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 at vi kunne købe de ringe for Penge og den fattige formedelst et Par Sko, og at vi kunne sælge Affald af Korn?
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 Herren har svoret ved Jakobs Stolthed: Alle deres Gerninger vil jeg ikke glemme evindelig.
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 Skal ikke for dette Jorden ryste, saa at hver, som bor derpaa, sørger, og den helt hæver sig som Floden, drives hid og did og sænker sig som Ægyptens Flod?
[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 Og det skal ske paa denne Dag, siger den Herre, Herre, da vil jeg lade Solen gaa ned om Middagen og lade det blive mørkt for Jorden ved højlys Dag.
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 Og jeg vil omvende eders Fester til Sorg og alle eders Sange til Klagemaal og bringe Sæk om alle Lænder og gøre hvert Hoved skaldet; og jeg vil give Sorg der som over en eneste Søn, og det sidste der skal være som en bitter Dag.
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 Se, de Dage komme, siger den Herre, Herre, da jeg vil sende Hugger i Landet, ikke Hunger efter Brød og ikke Tørst efter Vand, men efter at høre Herrens Ord.
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 Og de skulle vanke hid og did, fra Hav indtil Hav og fra Norden og indtil Østen; de skulle løbe omkring for at søge efter Herrens Ord, og de skulle ikke finde det.
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 Paa denne Dag skulle de dej lige Jomfruer og de unge Karle forsmægte af Tørst,
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 de, som sværge ved Samarias Skyld, og sige: Saa sandt din Gud lever, Dan! og saa sandt Beersabas Skik bestaar! Og de skulle falde og ikke rejse sig mere.
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.”
