Amos 8
1 Aƒetɔ Yehowa ɖe kusi aɖe si yɔ fũu kple kutsetse ɖiɖiwo la fiam le ŋutega me.
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer 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.”
He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
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.”
The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
4 Misee ɖa, mi ame siwo baa ame dahewo, heɖoa afɔ hiãtɔwo dzi.
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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.
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
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.
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
7 Yehowa ta nu ɖe Yakob ƒe dada ŋu be, “Nyemaŋlɔ miaƒe nu vɔ̃wo be o!
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of 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.”
Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, 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.
It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
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.”
I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end 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 come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
12 Woatsa tso afii ayi afi mɛ, tso anyiehe ayi ɣedzeƒe, anɔ Yehowa ƒe nya dim be yewoase, gake womakpɔe o.
They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and 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 the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for 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.’”
Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”
