Amos 8
1 Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
主耶和華又指示我一件事：我看見一筐夏天的果子。
2 And He saith, 'What art thou seeing, Amos?' and I say, 'A basket of summer-fruit.' And Jehovah saith unto me: 'The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.
他說：「阿摩司啊，你看見甚麼？」我說：「看見一筐夏天的果子。」耶和華說：「我民以色列的結局到了，我必不再寬恕他們。」
3 And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw — hush!
主耶和華說：「那日，殿中的詩歌變為哀號；必有許多屍首在各處拋棄，無人作聲。」
4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
你們這些要吞吃窮乏人、 使困苦人衰敗的，當聽我的話！
5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
你們說：月朔幾時過去， 我們好賣糧； 安息日幾時過去， 我們好擺開麥子； 賣出用小升斗， 收銀用大戥子， 用詭詐的天平欺哄人，
6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
好用銀子買貧寒人， 用一雙鞋換窮乏人， 將壞了的麥子賣給人。
7 Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: 'I forget not for ever any of their works.
耶和華指着雅各的榮耀起誓說： 他們的一切行為，我必永遠不忘。
8 For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.
地豈不因這事震動？ 其上的居民不也悲哀嗎？ 地必全然像尼羅河漲起， 如同埃及河湧上落下。
9 And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,
主耶和華說：到那日， 我必使日頭在午間落下， 使地在白晝黑暗。
10 And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
我必使你們的節期變為悲哀， 歌曲變為哀歌。 眾人腰束麻布，頭上光禿， 使這場悲哀如喪獨生子， 至終如痛苦的日子一樣。
11 Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
主耶和華說：日子將到， 我必命饑荒降在地上。 人飢餓非因無餅，乾渴非因無水， 乃因不聽耶和華的話。
12 And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find.
他們必飄流，從這海到那海， 從北邊到東邊，往來奔跑， 尋求耶和華的話，卻尋不着。
13 In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.
當那日，美貌的處女 和少年的男子必因乾渴發昏。
14 Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen — and rise not again!'
那指着撒馬利亞牛犢起誓的說： 但哪，我們指着你那裏的活神起誓； 又說：我們指着別是巴的神道起誓。 這些人都必仆倒，永不再起來。
