Amos 8
1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
主耶和华又指示我一件事：我看见一筐夏天的果子。
2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
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。”
3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
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。”
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
你们这些要吞吃穷乏人、 使困苦人衰败的，当听我的话！
5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
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，
6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
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。
7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
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。
8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
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。
9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
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。
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
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。
11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
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。
12 People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
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。
13 In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst.
当那日，美貌的处女 和少年的男子必因干渴发昏。
14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”
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。
