Amos 8
1 Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
O Senhor Jehovah assim me mostrou: e eis aqui um cesto de frutos do verão.
2 He asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A basket of [very] ripe fruit.” He said, “That indicates that it almost the end for my Israeli people. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
E disse: Que vês, Amós? E eu disse: Um cesto de frutos do verão. Então o Senhor me disse: Tem vindo o fim sobre o meu povo Israel; daqui por diante nunca mais passarei por ele.
3 [Soon, ] instead of singing in the temple, they will be wailing. There will be corpses everywhere [HYP]. So, remain silent (OR, Everyone will be silent). [These things will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it!”
Mas os cânticos do templo serão ouvidos naquele dia, diz o Senhor Jehovah: multiplicar-se-ão os cadáveres, em todos os lugares, serão lançados fora em silêncio.
4 [It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
Ouvi isto, vós que anelais o abatimento do necessitado; e isto para destruirdes os miseráveis da terra:
5 You habitually say, “We wish that [RHQ] the new moon [festival] would end soon, in order that [restrictions on doing business during the festival will be ended] and we can sell grain. We wish that the Sabbath would end soon, in order that we will again be permitted to sell our wheat”— and [when you sell it], you charge a big price for it, and you cheat people by using scales that do not weigh correctly.
Dizendo: Quando passará a lua nova, para vendermos o grão? e o sábado, para abrirmos os celeiros de trigo? diminuindo o epha, e aumentando o siclo, e falsificando as balanças enganosas;
6 You sell wheat that you have swept up from the floor, and as a result it is mixed with dirt. Those who are needy and poor [DOU] and who do not have money [to buy things], you cause them to become your slaves by buying them with the [small amount of] silver [with which you could buy] a pair of sandals!
Para comprarmos os pobres por dinheiro, e os necessitados por um par de sapatos? então venderemos as cascas do trigo.
7 Yahweh has declared, “Although you are very proud of [being descendants] [MTY] of Jacob, I solemnly declare that I will not forget the [evil things] that you have done.
Jurou o Senhor pela glória de Jacob: Eu me não esquecerei de todas as suas obras para sempre.
8 [Because of those evil things], your country will certainly [RHQ] soon be shaken, and all of you will mourn. [It will be as though] it will repeatedly rise and fall like [SIM] the Nile [River] that gets full of water [and overflows it banks] and then settles back into its riverbed.
Por causa disto não se comoveria a terra? e não choraria todo aquele que habita nela? certamente levantar-se-a toda como um rio, e será arrojada, e será fundida como pelo rio do Egito.
9 On the day [when I punish my people], I will cause the sun to set at noontime, and the [entire] earth will be dark in the daytime.
E sucederá que, naquele dia, diz o Senhor, farei que o sol se ponha ao meio dia, e a terra se entenebreça no dia da luz.
10 I will cause your [religious] celebrations to become times when you mourn; instead of singing, everyone will be weeping. Because of what I [will do], all of you will wear rough sackcloth and shave your heads [to show that you are sorrowing]. I will cause that time to be like when people mourn after an only son [has died]. All of you will be extremely sad all of that day.”
E tornarei as vossas festas em luto, e todos os vossos cânticos em lamentações, e farei pôr saco sobre todos os lombos, e calva sobre toda a cabeça; e farei que isso seja como luto do filho único, e o seu fim como dia de amarguras.
11 And Yahweh our God says this: “It will [soon] be the time when I will cause something to be very scarce [MET] throughout the country. But it will not be a time when there is no food or water; it will instead be a time when there will be no messages from me for anyone to hear.
Eis que veem dias, diz o Senhor Jehovah, em que enviarei fome sobre a terra, não fome de pão, nem sede de água, mas de ouvir as palavras do Senhor.
12 People will stagger from the [Dead] Sea to the [Mediterranean] Sea, and wander from the north to the east, searching for a message from me, but there will not be any.
E irão vagabundos de um mar até outro mar, e do norte até ao oriente: correrão por toda a parte, buscando a palavra do Senhor, mas não a acharão.
13 At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
Naquele dia as virgens formosas e os mancebos desmaiarão à sede.
14 Those who (make oaths/solemnly promise to do something) using the names of their shameful gods of Samaria, and those who solemnly promise to do something [using the name of] the god of Dan, and those who solemnly promise to do something [using the name of] the god of Beersheba, will all die; and they will never live again.”
Os que juram pelo delito de Samaria, e dizem: Vive o teu deus, ó Dan, e: Vive o caminho de Berseba; e cairão, e não se levantarão mais.
