Amos 8
1 Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Bino Mukama Katonda bye yandaga. Ne ndaba ekisero ekirimu ebibala ebyengedde.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
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 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
“Ku lunaku olwo,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda, “okuyimba kw’omu yeekaalu kulifuuka kukungubaga. Walibeerawo okufa okuyitirivu, emirambo nga gibunye wonna. Walibaawo akasiriikiriro.”
4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Muwulire bino mmwe abalinnyirira abateesobola, era abasaanyaawo abanaku b’omu nsi,
5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
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 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.
mmwe abagula abaavu n’effeeza n’abanaku ne mubagula n’omugogo gw’engatto, ne mutundira ebisaaniiko mu ŋŋaano.
7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Mukama yeeweredde amalala ga Yakobo ng’agamba nti, “Sigenda kwerabira bintu bye bakoze.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
“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 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
Mukama Katonda agamba nti, “Ku lunaku olwo, enjuba erigwiira mu ttuntu era ensi erikwata ekizikiza emisana ttuku.
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as 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 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but 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 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall 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 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
“Mu biro ebyo, “abawala ababalagavu n’abalenzi ab’amaanyi balizirika olw’ennyonta.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy God, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up 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.”
