Amos 8
1 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, a basket of summer fruit!
主耶和华又指示我一件事：我看见一筐夏天的果子。
2 He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
他说：“阿摩司啊，你看见什么？”我说：“看见一筐夏天的果子。”耶和华说：“我民以色列的结局到了，我必不再宽恕他们。”
3 The songs of the temple will become wailings in that day —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— many dead bodies, they are thrown everywhere! Silence!”
主耶和华说：“那日，殿中的诗歌变为哀号；必有许多尸首在各处抛弃，无人作声。”
4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy and remove the poor of the land.
你们这些要吞吃穷乏人、 使困苦人衰败的，当听我的话！
5 They say, “When will the new moon be over, so we can sell grain again? When will the Sabbath day be over, so that we can sell wheat? We will make the measure small and increase the price, as we cheat with false scales.
你们说：月朔几时过去， 我们好卖粮； 安息日几时过去， 我们好摆开麦子； 卖出用小升斗， 收银用大戥子， 用诡诈的天平欺哄人，
6 This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.”
好用银子买贫寒人， 用一双鞋换穷乏人， 将坏了的麦子卖给人。
7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their actions.”
耶和华指着雅各的荣耀起誓说： 他们的一切行为，我必永远不忘。
8 Will not the land quake for this, and every one who lives in it mourn? All of it will rise up like the Nile River, and it will be tossed about and sink again, like the river of Egypt.
地岂不因这事震动？ 其上的居民不也悲哀吗？ 地必全然像尼罗河涨起， 如同埃及河涌上落下。
9 “It will come in that day —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— that I will make the sun set at noon, and I will darken the earth at daylight.
主耶和华说：到那日， 我必使日头在午间落下， 使地在白昼黑暗。
10 I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and have baldness on every head. I will make it like mourning for an only son, and a bitter day to its end.
我必使你们的节期变为悲哀， 歌曲变为哀歌。 众人腰束麻布，头上光秃， 使这场悲哀如丧独生子， 至终如痛苦的日子一样。
11 Look, the days are coming —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Yahweh.
主耶和华说：日子将到， 我必命饥荒降在地上。 人饥饿非因无饼，干渴非因无水， 乃因不听耶和华的话。
12 They will stagger from sea to sea; they will run from the north to the east to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it.
他们必飘流，从这海到那海， 从北边到东边，往来奔跑， 寻求耶和华的话，却寻不着。
13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint from thirst.
当那日，美貌的处女 和少年的男子必因干渴发昏。
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, 'As your god lives, Dan,' and, 'As the way to Beersheba exists'— they will fall and never rise again.”
那指着撒马利亚牛犊起誓的说： 但哪，我们指着你那里的活神起誓； 又说：我们指着别是巴的神道起誓。 这些人都必仆倒，永不再起来。
