Amos 8
1 Aƒetɔ Yehowa ɖe kusi aɖe si yɔ fũu kple kutsetse ɖiɖiwo la fiam le ŋutega me.
These things the Lord has revealed to me. And behold, a hook to draw down fruit.
2 Ebiam be, “Amos, nu ka kpɔm nèle?” Meɖo eŋu nɛ be, “Kusi si yɔ kple atikutsetse ɖiɖiwo.” Yehowa gblɔ nam be, “Israel ƒe ɣeyiɣi de, eya ta nyemagahe woƒe tohehe ɖe megbe azɔ o.”
And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A hook to draw down fruit.” And the Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel. I will no longer pass through them.”
3 Egagblɔ be, “Hadzidzi siwo ɖina le gbedoxɔ me la azu avifafa gbe ma gbe. Ame kukuwo akaka ɖe afi sia afi, eye ɖoɖoe azi klẽnee.”
And the hinges of the temple will creak in that day, says the Lord God. Many will die. Silence will be thrown away in all places.
4 Misee ɖa, mi ame siwo baa ame dahewo, heɖoa afɔ hiãtɔwo dzi.
Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.
5 Mi ame siwo le gbɔgblɔm be, “Gbe ka gbe dzinu yeye nu le yiyi ge ne míadzra bli, eye Dzudzɔgbe nu le yiyi ge ne míaʋu avawo nu?” Míatsɔ nudanu suewo kple nudzidzenu miamiawo anɔ ame bamii.
You say, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the Sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales,
6 Mi ame siwo doa kluvi ame dahewo ɖe klosaloga ɖeka ta, eye miedzraa hiãtɔwo ɖe afɔkpa dodo ɖeka pɛ ta alo dzraa bli gbegblẽ na wo.
in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?”
7 Yehowa ta nu ɖe Yakob ƒe dada ŋu be, “Nyemaŋlɔ miaƒe nu vɔ̃wo be o!
The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works.
8 “Le esia ta anyigba adzo nyanyanya, ame sia ame afa konyi, eye woakɔ ayi dzi abe Nil tɔsisi ene. Woadze agbo, agadze anyi abe Egipte tɔsisi la ene.”
Will not the earth shudder over this, and all its inhabitants mourn, and all rise up like a river, and be cast out, and flow away like the river of Egypt?
9 Aƒetɔ Yehowa be, “Gbe ma gbe la, mana ɣe naɖo to le ŋdɔkutsu, eye viviti nado ɖe anyigba dzi le ŋkeke me.
And it will be in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun will decline at midday, and I will cause the earth to become dark on the day of light.
10 Matrɔ miaƒe ŋkekenyuiwo woazu konyifafa, eye miaƒe dzidzɔhawo azu avihawo. Mianɔ funyivɔ me, alũ ta kolikoli abe mia viŋutsu ɖeka hɔ̃ɔ si le mia si lae ku ene. Nyateƒe, ŋkeke ma ave le miaƒe nu me ŋutɔ.”
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your hymns into lamentation. And I will put sackcloth over every one of your backs, and baldness on every head. And I will begin it like the mourning for an only-begotten son, and complete it like a bitter day.
11 Aƒetɔ Yehowa be: “Ŋkeke li gbɔna esi dzi maɖo dɔwuame ɖe anyigba dzi, menye nuɖuɖu kple tsi ƒe dɔwuame o, ke boŋ Yehowa ƒe nyasese ƒe dɔwuame wòanye.
Behold, the days pass, says the Lord, and I will send a famine on the earth: not a famine of bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord.
12 Woatsa tso afii ayi afi mɛ, tso anyiehe ayi ɣedzeƒe, anɔ Yehowa ƒe nya dim be yewoase, gake womakpɔe o.
And they will move even from sea to sea, and from the North all the way to the East. They will wander around seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it.
13 “Gbe ma gbe la, “ɖeɖi ate ɖetugbi dzetugbewo kple ɖekakpui sesẽwo ŋu, eye nu ati kɔ na wo le mawunya ƒe tsikɔ si le wo wum la ta.
In that day, beautiful virgins, and young men, will fail because of thirst.
14 Ame siwo ta legba si le Samaria, eye wogblɔ be, ‘O Dan, meta wò mawu ƒe agbe alo meta Beerseba ƒe mɔ la adze anyi, eye womagafɔ akpɔ gbeɖe o.’”
They swear by the offense of Samaria, and they say, “As your God lives, Dan,” and “The way of Beer-sheba lives.” And they will fall, and they will not rise up any more.
