Amos 8
1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
ʼAdonay Yavé me mostró: Mira ahí una cesta con frutas de verano.
2 And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.
Y dijo: ¿Qué ves, Amós? Y respondí: Una cesta con frutas de verano. Entonces Yavé me dijo: Mi pueblo Israel está maduro. No lo toleraré más.
3 And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.
Aquel día, dice ʼAdonay Yavé, los carruajes del palacio se convertirán en aullidos. Muchos serán los cadáveres que en silencio serán echados en cualquier lugar.
4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
Oigan esto ustedes, los que pisotean al necesitado y destruyen a los pobres de la tierra,
5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
mientras dicen: ¿Cuándo pasará la luna nueva para que vendamos grano, o el sábado, para que ofrezcamos trigo, para reducir el peso y aumentar el precio, para engañar con balanza falsa,
6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
para comprar a los pobres por dinero y a los necesitados por un par de sandalias?
7 The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.
Por causa del orgullo de Jacob, Yavé juró: ¡No olvidaré jamás todas sus obras!
8 Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.
¿No temblará la tierra por esto, y harán luto todos sus habitantes? Subirá toda como un río, crecerá y mermará como el Nilo de Egipto.
9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
En aquel día, dice ʼAdonay Yavé, ocultaré el sol al mediodía, oscureceré la tierra en pleno día,
10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
convertiré sus fiestas en duelo y todos sus cánticos en lamentos. Impulsaré a que toda cintura se cubra de tela áspera, y que toda cabeza se rape. Les impondré un duelo como por el unigénito, y su fin será un amargo día.
11 See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.
Ciertamente vienen días, dice ʼAdonay Yavé, cuando enviaré hambre a la tierra, no hambre de pan, ni sed de agua, sino de oír las Palabras de Yavé.
12 And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.
Irán errantes de mar a mar, y vagarán en busca de la Palabra de Yavé desde el norte hasta el oriente, pero no la hallarán.
13 In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.
Aquel día las hermosas doncellas y los jóvenes desmayarán de sed.
14 Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
Los que juran por el pecado de Samaria: ¡Por tu ʼElohim, oh Dan! Y: ¡Por el camino a Beerseba caerán, y nunca más se levantarán!
