Amos 8
1 Saaledes lod HERREN mig skue: Se, der var en Kurv Sommerfrugt.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Og han sagde: »Hvad ser du, Amos?« Jeg svarede: »En Kurv Sommerfrugt!« Da sagde HERREN til mig: »Enden er kommet for mit Folk Israel; jeg vil ikke længer bære over med 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 Paladsets Sangerinder skal jamre paa denne Dag, saa lyder det fra den Herre HERREN, Dynger af Lig er henkastet alle Vegne.
[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 Hør, I, som knuser de fattige, gør det af med de arme i Landet
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 og siger: »Hvornaar er Nymaanen omme, saa vi kan faa solgt noget Korn, Sabbaten, saa vi kan aabne vort Kornsalg, gøre Efaen lille og Sekelen stor og med Svig gøre Vægten falsk
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 for at købe den ringe for Sølv, den fattige for et Par Sko og faa Affaldskornet solgt?«
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 svor ved Jakobs Stolthed: Aldrig glemmer jeg een af deres Gerninger!
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 Maa Jorden ej skælve derover og enhver, som bor paa den, sørge? Den stiger overalt som Nilen og synker 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 Paa hin Dag lader jeg det ske, saa lyder det fra den Herre HERREN, at Solen gaar ned ved Middag, og Jorden bliver mørk 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 Jeg vender eders Fester til Sorg og alle eders Sange til klage, lægger Sæk om alle Lænder, gør hvert et Hoved skaldet, bringer Sorg som over en enbaaren, en bitter Dag til sidst.
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, Dage skal komme, lyder det fra den Herre HERREN, da jeg sender Hunger i Landet, ikke Hunger efter Brød, 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 Da vanker de fra Hav til Hav, flakker fra Nord til Øst for at søge HERRENS Ord, men finder det ej.
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 Den Dag vansmægter af Tørst de fagre Jomfruer og unge Mænd,
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 som sværger ved Samarias Synd, som siger: »Ved din Gud, o Dan!« »Ved din Skytsgud, o Be'ersjeba!« de skal falde, ej mere staa op.
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.”
