Amos 8
1 Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
主耶和華又指示我一件事：我看見一筐夏天的果子。
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer-fruit. And Jehovah said unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.
他說：「阿摩司啊，你看見甚麼？」我說：「看見一筐夏天的果子。」耶和華說：「我民以色列的結局到了，我必不再寬恕他們。」
3 And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!
主耶和華說：「那日，殿中的詩歌變為哀號；必有許多屍首在各處拋棄，無人作聲。」
4 Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
你們這些要吞吃窮乏人、 使困苦人衰敗的，當聽我的話！
5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances for deceit:
你們說：月朔幾時過去， 我們好賣糧； 安息日幾時過去， 我們好擺開麥子； 賣出用小升斗， 收銀用大戥子， 用詭詐的天平欺哄人，
6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.
好用銀子買貧寒人， 用一雙鞋換窮乏人， 將壞了的麥子賣給人。
7 Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works.
耶和華指着雅各的榮耀起誓說： 他們的一切行為，我必永遠不忘。
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall wholly rise up like the Nile; and it shall surge and sink down, as the river of Egypt.
地豈不因這事震動？ 其上的居民不也悲哀嗎？ 地必全然像尼羅河漲起， 如同埃及河湧上落下。
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day.
主耶和華說：到那日， 我必使日頭在午間落下， 使地在白晝黑暗。
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
我必使你們的節期變為悲哀， 歌曲變為哀歌。 眾人腰束麻布，頭上光禿， 使這場悲哀如喪獨生子， 至終如痛苦的日子一樣。
11 Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.
主耶和華說：日子將到， 我必命饑荒降在地上。 人飢餓非因無餅，乾渴非因無水， 乃因不聽耶和華的話。
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
他們必飄流，從這海到那海， 從北邊到東邊，往來奔跑， 尋求耶和華的話，卻尋不着。
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
當那日，美貌的處女 和少年的男子必因乾渴發昏。
14 they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, [As] thy god, O Dan, liveth! and, [As] the way of Beer-sheba liveth! even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
那指着撒馬利亞牛犢起誓的說： 但哪，我們指着你那裏的活神起誓； 又說：我們指着別是巴的神道起誓。 這些人都必仆倒，永不再起來。
