Amos 8
1 Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
Esto fue lo que me mostró el Señor: Vi una cesta de frutas.
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.
Él me preguntó: “¿Qué ves, Amós?” Yo le dije: “Una cesta de frutas”. Entonces el Señor me dijo: “Este es el fin de mi pueblo Israel! Dejaré de pasar por alto sus pecados.
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!”
Ese día las canciones del Templo se convertirán en lamentos tristes. Habrá cuerpos tirados por todos lados. ¡Hagan silencio!” dice el Señor.
4 [It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
Escuchen esto, ustedes que ponen trampas a los necesitados y pisotean a los pobres 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.
Ustedes que preguntan: ¿Cuándo se acabará el día santo para poder irme nuevamente a vender? “¿Cuándo se acabará el Sábado para abrir nuestras tiendas, y engañar a la gente con medidas incompletas y pesos falsos?”
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!
Ustedes compran a los pobres por plata, y a los necesitados por un par de sandalias, además venden el grano mezclado con paja.
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.
El Señor Dios, de quien se enorgullecen los descendientes de Jacob, ha hecho un juramento: No olvidaré el mal que han 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 es lógico que la tierra se estremezca por esto y que se lamenten todos los que habitan en ella? La tierra crecerá como crece el río Nilo cuando hay inundación, será lanzada por los aires y volverá a caer.
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.
Ese día, declara el Señor, yo hare que el sol se ponga al medio día, y que la tierra se oscurezca en horas del día.
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 sus festivales en tiempos de luto, y sus canciones alegres en lamentos. Yo haré que vistan silicio y que se afeiten sus cabezas. Haré que el luto sea como cuando muere su único hijo. Al final, será 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.
Viene el tiempo, dice el Señor, en el que enviaré hambre a la tierra, no hambre de pan o escasez de agua, sino hambre de la palabra de Dios.
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.
La gente vagará de un mar a otro, de norte a este, corriendo de aquí para allá, buscando la palabra del Señor, pero no la encontrarán.
13 At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
Ese día, incluso las jóvenes más bellas y saludables desmayarán de sed.
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.”
Los que hacen juramentos en nombre de los ídolos vergonzosos de Samaria, que hacen juramentos como: “Por la vida de tu dios, Dan”, o “Un peregrinaje al dios de Beerseba”, los tales caerán, y nunca volverán a levantarse.
