Amos 8
1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and behold, a basket of summer fruite.
Tako mi je pokazal Gospod Bog in glej, košara poletnega sadja.
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.
Rekel je: »Amos, kaj vidiš?« Rekel sem: »Košaro poletnega sadja.« Potem mi je Gospod rekel: »Konec je prišel nad moje ljudstvo Izrael; ne bom ponovno šel mimo njih.
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.
Tempeljske pesmi bodo vpitje na ta dan, « govori Gospod Bog. »Na vsakem kraju bo mnogo trupel; metali jih bodo v tišini.
4 Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle,
Poslušajte to, oh vi, ki pogoltnete pomoči potrebnega, celo da revnemu v deželi storite, da propade,
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?
rekoč: ›Kdaj bo minil mlaj, da bomo lahko prodajali žito? In šabat, da bomo lahko odpremili pšenico, naredili škaf majhen in šekel velik in s prevaro izkrivili tehtnice?
6 That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.
Da lahko ubogega kupimo za srebro in pomoči potrebnega za par čevljev, da, in prodamo pleve od pšenice?‹«
7 The Lord hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaakob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
Gospod je prisegel pri Jakobovi odličnosti: »Zagotovo ne bom nikoli pozabil nobenega izmed njihovih del.
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.
Mar ne bo zemlja zaradi tega trepetala in vsak človek žaloval, ki prebiva na njej? Vstala bo v celoti kakor poplava, vržena bo ven in potopljena, kakor z egiptovsko poplavo.
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.
Na tisti dan se bo zgodilo, « govori Gospod Bog, »da bom soncu povzročil, da zaide opoldan in na jasen dan bom zatemnil zemljo.
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.
Vaše praznike bom obrnil v žalovanje in vse vaše pesmi v žalostinko in privedel bom vrečevino na vsa ledja in plešavost na vsako glavo in naredil jo bom kakor žalovanje za edinim sinom in njen konec kakor grenek dan.
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.
Glejte, pridejo dnevi, « govori Gospod Bog, »da bom v deželo poslal lakoto, ne lakote po kruhu niti žeje po vodi, temveč [lakoto] po poslušanju Gospodovih besed.
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.
Tavali bodo od morja do morja in od severa, celo do vzhoda, tekali bodo sem ter tja, da iščejo besedo od Gospoda, pa je ne bodo našli.
13 In that day shall the faire virgines and the yong men perish for thirst.
Na tisti dan bodo lepe device in mladeniči slabeli zaradi žeje.
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.
Tisti, ki prisegajo pri grehu Samarije in pravijo: ›Tvoj bog, oh Dan, živi; ‹ in: ›Način Beeršébe živi; ‹ celo padli bodo in nikoli več ne bodo ponovno vstali.«
