Amos 8
1 Thus has Lord YHWH showed me, and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce uncinus pomorum.
2 And He says, “What are you seeing, Amos?” And I say, “A basket of summer-fruit.” And YHWH says to me: “The end has come to My people Israel, I no longer pass over to it anymore.
Et dixit: Quid tu vides Amos? Et dixi: Uncinum pomorum. Et dixit Dominus ad me: Venit finis super populum meum Israel: non adiiciam ultra ut pertranseam eum.
3 And female singers have howled of a palace in that day,” A declaration of Lord YHWH, “Many [are] the carcasses, into any place throw—hush!”
Et stridebunt cardines templi in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: multi morientur: in omni loco proiicietur silentium.
4 Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, To cause the poor of the land to cease,
Audite hoc qui conteritis pauperem, et deficere facitis egenos terræ,
5 Saying, “When does the new moon pass, And we sell ground grain? And the Sabbath, and we open out pure grain? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use balances of deceit perversely.
dicentes: Quando transibit mensis, et venundabimus merces: et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum: ut imminuamus mensuram, et augeamus siclum, et supponamus stateras dolosas,
6 To purchase the poor with money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Indeed, the refuse of the pure grain we sell.”
ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperes pro calceamentis, et quisquilias frumenti vendamus?
7 YHWH has sworn by the excellence of Jacob: “I do not forget any of their works forever.
Iuravit Dominus in superbiam Iacob: Si oblitus fuero usque ad finem omnia opera eorum.
8 Does the land not tremble for this, And every dweller in it has mourned? And all of it has come up as a flood. And it has been cast out, and has sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.
Numquid super isto non commovebitur terra, et lugebit omnis habitator eius: et ascendet quasi fluvius universus, et eiicicetur, et defluet quasi rivus Ægypti?
9 And it has come to pass in that day,” A declaration of Lord YHWH, “I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,
Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: occidet sol in meridie, et tenebrescere faciam terram in die luminis:
10 And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head—baldness, And made it as a mourning of an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
et convertam festivitates vestras in luctum, et omnia cantica vestra in planctum: et inducam super omne dorsum vestrum saccum, et super omne caput calvitium: et ponam eam quasi luctum unigeniti, et novissima eius quasi diem amarum.
11 Behold, days are coming,” A declaration of Lord YHWH, “And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, But of hearing the words of YHWH.
Ecce dies veniunt, dicet Dominus: et mittam famem in terram: non famem panis, neque sitim aquæ, sed audiendi verbum Domini.
12 And they have wandered from sea to sea, And from north even to east, They go to and fro to seek the word of YHWH, And they do not find [it].
Et commovebuntur a Mari usque ad mare, et ab Aquilone usque ad Orientem: circuibunt quærentes verbum Domini, et non invenient.
13 In that day the beautiful virgins, And the young men, faint with thirst.
In die illa deficient virgines pulchræ et adolescentes in siti.
14 Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And who have said, Your god lives, O Dan, And, The way of Beer-Sheba lives, Indeed, they have fallen and do not rise again!”
Qui iurant in delicto Samariæ, et dicunt: Vivit Deus tuus Dan: et vivit via Bersabee, et cadent, et non resurgent ultra.
