Amos 8
1 Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
Yahvé, el Señor, me mostró esto: Veía un canasto de fruta madura;
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.
Y Él dijo: “¿Qué es lo que ves, Amós?” Respondí: “Un canasto de fruta madura.” Y Yahvé me dijo: “Ha llegado el fin de Israel, mi pueblo; ya no lo perdonaré.
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!”
En aquel día los cantares en el palacio se convertirán en aullidos —oráculo de Yahvé—, habrá muchos cadáveres, y en todo lugar se los arrojará en silencio.
4 [It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
¡Oíd esto, los que os tragáis al pobre, y hacéis perecer a los humildes de la tierra,
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.
diciendo: «¿Cuándo pasará el novilunio para que vendamos el trigo, y el sábado, para que abramos los graneros? Achicaremos la medida y agrandaremos el peso, y falsearemos la balanza para engañar.
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!
Así compraremos por dinero al pobre, y al menesteroso por un par de sandalias, y venderemos hasta las ahechaduras del 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.
Ha jurado Yahvé por la gloria de Jacob: Jamás me olvidaré de cuanto ha hecho.
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.
¿No ha de estremecerse por esto la tierra, y no se enlutarán todos sus moradores? ¿No se alzará toda ella como el Nilo, se levantará y se abajará como el río de Egipto?
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.
En aquel día, dice Yahvé, el Señor, haré que se ponga el sol al mediodía, y en pleno día cubriré de tinieblas la tierra.
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.”
Convertiré en duelo vuestras fiestas, y en llantos todos vuestros cantares; echaré el cilicio sobre todos los lomos, y haré calvas todas las cabezas; traeré sobre el (país) luto, como por un hijo único, y su fin será como un día amargo.
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.
He aquí que vienen días, dice Yahvé, el Señor, en que enviaré hambre sobre la tierra; no hambre de pan, ni sed de agua, sino de oír las palabras de Yahvé.
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.
Andarán errantes de mar a mar, y discurrirán del norte al oriente, en busca de la palabra de Yahvé, mas no la hallarán.
13 At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
En aquel día desfallecerán de sed las hermosas doncellas y los jóvenes,
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.”
que juran por el pecado de Samaria diciendo: “¡Por la vida de tu dios, oh Dan!”, y: “¡Por el camino de Bersabee!” Caerán y no se levantarán nunca jamás.
