Amos 7
1 Yahweh our God showed me [in a vision] that he was going to send locusts [to destroy our crops]. It was going to happen right after the king’s share of the hay had been harvested/cut and before the rest of the hay was ready to be harvested.
ʼAdonay Yavé me mostró esto: Ciertamente Él formaba un enjambre de langostas cuando comenzaba a brotar el pasto tardío. Y en verdad era el pasto tardío que viene después de la cosecha del rey.
2 [And in the vision I saw] those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, “Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israeli people are very helpless; (how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?/we will not be able to survive!)”
Aconteció que cuando acababan de comer la hierba de la tierra, yo dije: ¡Oh ʼAdonay Yavé, te ruego que perdones! ¿Cómo podrá resistir Jacob, que es tan pequeño?
3 So Yahweh changed his mind and said, “That will not happen.”
Yavé desistió de esto: No será, dijo Yavé.
4 Then this is what Yahweh our Lord showed me [in another vision]: He was calling to a fire to [come and] punish [his people]. [In the vision I saw that] the fire dried up the ocean and also burned [everything on] the land.
ʼAdonay Yavé me mostró: Vi que ʼAdonay Yavé llamaba a contender con fuego, y consumió el gran abismo, y devoraba la tierra.
5 Then I cried out again, “Yahweh our Lord, I plead with you, please stop this! We Israeli people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?”
Entonces dije: ¡Oh ʼAdonay Yavé, te ruego que desistas! ¿Cómo puede resistir Jacob, que es tan pequeño?
6 So Yahweh changed his mind again, and said, “That also will not happen.”
Yavé desistió de esto: Tampoco será esto, dijo ʼAdonay Yavé.
7 Then Yahweh showed me [another vision]. I saw him standing beside a wall. [It was very straight because] it had been built using a (plumb line/cord with a weight on one end to determine if walls are vertically straight). Yahweh had the plumb line in his hand.
Me mostró esto: Miré que ʼAdonay estaba en pie sobre un muro vertical, con una plomada en su mano.
8 Yahweh asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then Yahweh said, “Look, I am going to use a plumb line among my Israeli people, [to show that they are like a wall that is not straight]. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
Yavé me dijo: ¿Qué ves, Amós? Y respondí: Una plomada. Entonces ʼAdonay me dijo: Mira, Yo estoy a punto de aplicar la plomada en medio de mi pueblo Israel. No lo soporto más.
9 The places on hills where [the descendants of] [MTY] Isaac worship [idols] will be destroyed. And the other important shrines in Israel will also be destroyed. And I will enable [your enemies] to attack your people with swords and they will get rid of [King] Jeroboam and all his descendants.”
Los lugares altos de Isaac serán destruidos, las cosas sagradas de Israel serán desoladas, y me levantaré con la espada contra la casa de Jeroboam.
10 Then Amaziah, the priest at Bethel, sent [a message] to Jeroboam, the King of Israel. In the message he said, “Amos is plotting against you among the Israeli people [MTY]. [I am worried that] the people of this country will not be able to refute his words.
Entonces Amasías, sacerdote de Bet-ʼEl, envió a decir a Jeroboam, rey de Israel: Amós conspira contra ti en medio de la Casa de Israel: la tierra no puede soportar sus palabras.
11 This is what he is saying: ‘Jeroboam will soon be killed by [someone using] a sword, and the people of Israel will be (exiled/forced to leave their land and go to another country).’”
Porque Amós dijo: Jeroboam morirá a espada e Israel saldrá de su tierra en cautiverio.
12 Then Amaziah [came to me and] said, “You prophet, get out of here! Go back to the country of Judah! Earn money to [buy food to be able] to live there, and do your prophesying there!
Y Amasías dijo a Amós: Vidente, vé, huye a la tierra de Judá. Come allí tu pan y profetiza allí,
13 Do not prophesy any more here at Bethel, because this is where the national temple, the king’s temple, is!”
pero ya no vuelvas a profetizar en Bet-ʼEl, porque es santuario del rey y capital del reino.
14 I replied to Amaziah, “I was [previously] not a prophet, and my father was not a prophet; I was a shepherd. I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
Pero Amós respondió a Amasías: No soy profeta, ni hijo de profeta, sino boyero y cultivador de higos silvestres.
15 But Yahweh took me away from taking care of my sheep, and he said to me, ‘Go to Israel and prophesy to my people there!’
Pero Yavé me tomó de detrás del rebaño y me dijo: Vé, profetiza a mi pueblo Israel.
16 You said to me, ‘Do not prophecy saying terrible things will happen to [the people of] Israel; stop saying those things!’
Ahora pues, escucha la Palabra de Yavé: Tú dices: No profetices contra Israel, ni prediques contra la casa de Isaac.
17 Therefore listen to what Yahweh says about you: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons and daughters will be killed by [your enemies’] swords. Others will measure your land and divide it up [among themselves]; and you yourself will die in a foreign country. And the people of Israel will certainly be forced to leave their country and go (into exile/to live in another country).’”
Por tanto, Yavé dice: Tu esposa se prostituirá en la ciudad, tus hijos y tus hijas caerán a espada, tu tierra será repartida a cordel y tú morirás en tierra impura. Israel ciertamente irá de su tierra al exilio.
