Amos 8
1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and behold, a basket of summer fruite.
[神視四：果籃]吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，有一籃熟果子。
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I sayd, A basket of sommer fruite. Then sayd the Lord vnto me, The ende is come vpon my people of Israel, I wil passe by them no more.
上主說：「亞毛斯，你看見了什麼﹖」我答說：「一籃熟果子。」上主又向我說：「我百姓以色列的結局已成熟，我不再放過她。
3 And the songs of the Temple shalbe howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies shalbe in euery place: they shall cast them forth with silence.
在那一天，王宮中的歌女必要哀號──吾主上主的斷語──屍體成堆，拋在各處，鴉雀無聲。」
4 Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle,
壓榨窮人，使世上弱小絕跡的人哪! 你們應聽。
5 Saying, When will the newe moneth bee gone, that we may sell corne? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheate, and make the Ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifie the weights by deceit?
你們說：「月朔幾時才經過去，好讓我們賣五榖﹖安息日幾時才過去，好讓我們打開糧倉，縮小「厄法，」加重「協刻爾，」用假秤欺人﹖
6 That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.
用銀錢購買窮人，以一雙鞋換取貧人，連麥糠也賣掉﹖」
7 The Lord hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaakob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
上主指著雅各伯的誇耀說：「我永不會忘了你們的所作所為。
8 Shall not the lande tremble for this, and euery one mourne, that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise vp wholy as a flood, and it shall bee cast out, and drowned as by the flood of Egypt.
難道不是因此大地才震動，地上 居民才悲號，全地氾濫有如尼羅，退落有如埃及大河﹖
9 And in that day, saith the Lord God, I will euen cause the sunne to go downe at noone: and I will darken the earth in the cleare day.
在那一天──吾主上主的斷語──我必使太陽在中午落下，使大地白畫變為黑暗；
10 And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.
使你們的喜慶變為喪事，使你們的一切樂曲變為哀歌，使你們都腰繫苦衣，頭都剃光；使你們哀悼，如哀悼獨生子，使那一天紿終是愁苦的日子。
11 Beholde, the dayes come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the lande, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.
看，那日子一來臨──吾主上主的斷語──我必使飢餓臨於此地，汞是對食物的飢餓，也不是對水的飢渴，而是對聽上主的話的飢渴。
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North euen vnto the East shall they run to and from to seeke the worde of the Lord, and shall not finde it.
他們必由這海走到那海，由北至東，去尋求上主的話，卻尋不到。
13 In that day shall the faire virgines and the yong men perish for thirst.
那一天，美麗的處女和健壯的青年，必因饑渴而暈眩。
14 They that sweare by the sinne of Samaria, and that say, Thy God, O Dan, liueth, and the maner of Beer-sheba liueth, euen they shall fall, and neuer rise vp againe.
那些指著撒馬黎雅的罪過起誓，那些說：「丹，你的神永在，」或說：「貝爾舍巴，你的護守神永在」的人，必要跌倒，再不能起來。
