Amos 8
1 And behold a fowler's basket.
主耶和华又指示我一件事：我看见一筐夏天的果子。
2 And he said, What see you, Amos? And I said, A fowler's basket. And the Lord said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them any more.
他说：“阿摩司啊，你看见什么？”我说：“看见一筐夏天的果子。”耶和华说：“我民以色列的结局到了，我必不再宽恕他们。”
3 And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, says the Lord God: [there shall be] many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon [them].
主耶和华说：“那日，殿中的诗歌变为哀号；必有许多尸首在各处抛弃，无人作声。”
4 Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
你们这些要吞吃穷乏人、 使困苦人衰败的，当听我的话！
5 saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?
你们说：月朔几时过去， 我们好卖粮； 安息日几时过去， 我们好摆开麦子； 卖出用小升斗， 收银用大戥子， 用诡诈的天平欺哄人，
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.
好用银子买贫寒人， 用一双鞋换穷乏人， 将坏了的麦子卖给人。
7 The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.
耶和华指着雅各的荣耀起誓说： 他们的一切行为，我必永远不忘。
8 And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not every one who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.
地岂不因这事震动？ 其上的居民不也悲哀吗？ 地必全然像尼罗河涨起， 如同埃及河涌上落下。
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God, [that] the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:
主耶和华说：到那日， 我必使日头在午间落下， 使地在白昼黑暗。
10 and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved [friend], and those with them as a day of grief.
我必使你们的节期变为悲哀， 歌曲变为哀歌。 众人腰束麻布，头上光秃， 使这场悲哀如丧独生子， 至终如痛苦的日子一样。
11 Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will send forth a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.
主耶和华说：日子将到， 我必命饥荒降在地上。 人饥饿非因无饼，干渴非因无水， 乃因不听耶和华的话。
12 And the waters shall be troubled from sea to sea, and from the north to the east shall [men] run hither and there, seeking the word of the Lord, and they shall not find [it].
他们必飘流，从这海到那海， 从北边到东边，往来奔跑， 寻求耶和华的话，却寻不着。
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
当那日，美貌的处女 和少年的男子必因干渴发昏。
14 they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, Your god, O Bersabee, lives; and they shall fall, and shall no more rise again.
那指着撒马利亚牛犊起誓的说： 但哪，我们指着你那里的活神起誓； 又说：我们指着别是巴的神道起誓。 这些人都必仆倒，永不再起来。
