Amos 8

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

Saaledes lod HERREN mig skue: Se, der var en Kurv Sommerfrugt.

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.”

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.«

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!”

Paladsets Sangerinder skal jamre paa denne Dag, saa lyder det fra den Herre HERREN, Dynger af Lig er henkastet alle Vegne.

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Hør, I, som knuser de fattige, gør det af med de arme i Landet

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.

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

6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

for at købe den ringe for Sølv, den fattige for et Par Sko og faa Affaldskornet solgt?«

7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

HERREN svor ved Jakobs Stolthed: Aldrig glemmer jeg een af deres Gerninger!

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.

Maa Jorden ej skælve derover og enhver, som bor paa den, sørge? Den stiger overalt som Nilen og synker som Ægyptens Flod.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Da vanker de fra Hav til Hav, flakker fra Nord til Øst for at søge HERRENS Ord, men finder det ej.

13 In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst.

Den Dag vansmægter af Tørst de fagre Jomfruer og unge Mænd,

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.”

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.