Amos 8
1 This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw a basket of fruit.
Bino Mukama Katonda bye yandaga. Ne ndaba ekisero ekirimu ebibala ebyengedde.
2 He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of fruit.” Then the Lord told me, “This is the end of my people Israel! I won't ignore their sins anymore.
Mukama n’ambuuza nti, “Amosi, kiki ky’olaba?” Ne muddamu nti, “Ndaba ekisero ky’ebibala ebyengedde.” Mukama n’alyoka aŋŋamba nti, “Ekiseera eky’okubonereza abaana ba Isirayiri kituuse. Siribasonyiwa nate.
3 On that day the Temple songs will become sorrowful wailing. There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Silence!” declares the Lord.
“Ku lunaku olwo,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda, “okuyimba kw’omu yeekaalu kulifuuka kukungubaga. Walibeerawo okufa okuyitirivu, emirambo nga gibunye wonna. Walibaawo akasiriikiriro.”
4 Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.
Muwulire bino mmwe abalinnyirira abateesobola, era abasaanyaawo abanaku b’omu nsi,
5 You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?”
nga mwogera nti, “Ennaku enkulu ez’Omwezi ogwa kaboneka ziggwaako ddi, tulyoke tutunde emmere yaffe ey’empeke, era ne Ssabbiiti eggwaako ddi, tutunde eŋŋaano yaffe?” Mukozesa minzaani enkyamu ne mwongera emiwendo ne mukozesa n’ebipimo ebitatuuse,
6 You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.
mmwe abagula abaavu n’effeeza n’abanaku ne mubagula n’omugogo gw’engatto, ne mutundira ebisaaniiko mu ŋŋaano.
7 The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.
Mukama yeeweredde amalala ga Yakobo ng’agamba nti, “Sigenda kwerabira bintu bye bakoze.
8 Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile river in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again.
“Ensi terikankana olw’ekyo, na buli abeeramu n’akungubaga? Ensi yonna eritumbiira ng’omugga Kiyira n’ekka ng’amazzi ag’omugga gw’e Misiri bwe gakola.”
9 On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime.
Mukama Katonda agamba nti, “Ku lunaku olwo, enjuba erigwiira mu ttuntu era ensi erikwata ekizikiza emisana ttuku.
10 I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.
Embaga zammwe ez’eddini ndizifuula mikolo gya kukungubaga era okuyimba kwammwe kwonna kulifuuka kukaaba. Mwenna nzija kubatuusa ku kwambala ebibukutu n’emitwe gyammwe mugimwe. Olunaku olwo ndilufuula ng’olw’okukungubagira omwana owoobulenzi omu yekka, era n’enkomerero yaabyo ekaayire ddala.
11 The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
“Ekiseera kijja,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda, “lwe ndisindika enjala mu nsi yonna, teriba njala ya mmere oba nnyonta y’amazzi, naye eriba enjala y’ekigambo kya Katonda.
12 People will wander from sea to sea, from north to east, running to and fro searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.
Abantu balibundabunda okuva ku nnyanja emu okudda ku ndala, bave mu bukiikakkono badde mu bukiikaddyo nga banoonya ekigambo kya Mukama, naye tebalikifuna.
13 On that day, even the beautiful girls and healthy young men will collapse from thirst.
“Mu biro ebyo, “abawala ababalagavu n’abalenzi ab’amaanyi balizirika olw’ennyonta.
14 Those who swear by the disgraceful idols of Samaria, who take oaths like, “By the life of your god, Dan,” or “A pilgrimage to the god of Beersheba”—they will fall, and never rise again.
Abo abaalayira eby’ensonyi eby’e Samaliya oba abaayogera nti, ‘Nga katonda wo bw’ali omulamu ggwe Ddaani,’ oba nti, ‘Nga katonda w’e Beeruseba bw’ali omulamu,’ baligwa obutayimuka nate.”
