Amos 8
1 Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, —and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit.
Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce uncinus pomorum.
2 So then he said, What canst thou see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Yahweh unto me, The end hath come unto my people Israel, I will not again any more forgive them;
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 but palace-songs, shall become howlings, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, —Many shall be the dead bodies in every place—cast forth—[with a] hush!
Et stridebunt cardines templi in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: multi morientur: in omni loco proiicietur silentium.
4 Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:
Audite hoc qui conteritis pauperem, et deficere facitis egenos terræ,
5 Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights:
dicentes: Quando transibit mensis, et venundabimus merces: et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum: ut imminuamus mensuram, et augeamus siclum, et supponamus stateras dolosas,
6 Who buy—for silver—the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes, —and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.
ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperes pro calceamentis, et quisquilias frumenti vendamus?
7 Sworn hath Yahweh, by the Excellency of Jacob, —Surely I will never forget any of their doings!
Iuravit Dominus in superbiam Iacob: Si oblitus fuero usque ad finem omnia opera eorum.
8 Is it not, for this, that the land, shall tremble? and shall mourn every inhabitant therein? Shall it not come up—like the Nile, all of it, and be tossed and subside like the river 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 Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon, —and will darken the earth on a day of brightness!
Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: occidet sol in meridie, et tenebrescere faciam terram in die luminis:
10 So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up—on all loins—sackcloth, and upon every head—baldness, —and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, 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 Lo! days are coming, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will send a hunger throughout the land, —not a hunger for food, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Yahweh;
Ecce dies veniunt, dicet Dominus: et mittam famem in terram: non famem panis, neque sitim aquæ, sed audiendi verbum Domini.
12 Therefore shall men rove about—from sea to sea, and from the north even unto sunrise, —they shall run to and fro—seeking the word of Yahweh, but shall 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, shall the fair virgins and the choice young men faint for thirst.
In die illa deficient virgines pulchræ et adolescentes in siti.
14 They who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, As thy God, liveth, O Dan! and, As the Way of Beer-sheba, liveth, shall fall, and shall not rise any more.
Qui iurant in delicto Samariæ, et dicunt: Vivit Deus tuus Dan: et vivit via Bersabee, et cadent, et non resurgent ultra.
