Amos 8
1 Inilah yang diperlihatkan Tuhan ALLAH kepadaku: Tampak sebuah bakul berisi buah-buahan musim kemarau.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Lalu berfirmanlah Ia: "Apakah yang kaulihat, Amos?" Jawabku: "Sebuah bakul berisi buah-buahan musim kemarau." Berfirmanlah TUHAN kepadaku: "Kesudahan telah datang bagi umat-Ku Israel. Aku tidak akan memaafkannya lagi.
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.
3 Nyanyian-nyanyian di tempat suci akan menjadi ratapan pada hari itu," demikianlah firman Tuhan ALLAH. "Ada banyak bangkai: ke mana-mana orang melemparkannya dengan diam-diam."
[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!”
4 Dengarlah ini, kamu yang menginjak-injak orang miskin, dan yang membinasakan orang sengsara di negeri ini
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 dan berpikir: "Bilakah bulan baru berlalu, supaya kita boleh menjual gandum dan bilakah hari Sabat berlalu, supaya kita boleh menawarkan terigu dengan mengecilkan efa, membesarkan syikal, berbuat curang dengan neraca palsu,
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.
6 supaya kita membeli orang lemah karena uang dan orang yang miskin karena sepasang kasut; dan menjual terigu rosokan?"
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!
7 TUHAN telah bersumpah demi kebanggaan Yakub: "Bahwasanya Aku tidak akan melupakan untuk seterusnya segala perbuatan mereka!
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.
8 Tidakkah akan gemetar bumi karena hal itu, sehingga setiap penduduknya berkabung? Tidakkah itu seluruhnya akan naik seperti sungai Nil, diombang-ambingkan dan surut seperti sungai Mesir?"
[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.
9 "Pada hari itu akan terjadi," demikianlah firman Tuhan ALLAH, "Aku akan membuat matahari terbenam di siang hari dan membuat bumi gelap pada hari cerah.
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.
10 Aku akan mengubah perayaan-perayaanmu menjadi perkabungan, dan segala nyanyianmu menjadi ratapan. Aku akan mengenakan kain kabung pada setiap pinggang dan menjadikan gundul setiap kepala. Aku akan membuatnya sebagai perkabungan karena kematian anak tunggal, sehingga akhirnya menjadi seperti hari yang pahit pedih."
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.”
11 "Sesungguhnya, waktu akan datang," demikianlah firman Tuhan ALLAH, "Aku akan mengirimkan kelaparan ke negeri ini, bukan kelaparan akan makanan dan bukan kehausan akan air, melainkan akan mendengarkan firman TUHAN.
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.
12 Mereka akan mengembara dari laut ke laut dan menjelajah dari utara ke timur untuk mencari firman TUHAN, tetapi tidak mendapatnya.
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.
13 Pada hari itu akan rebah lesu anak-anak dara yang cantik dan anak-anak teruna karena haus;
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 mereka yang bersumpah demi Asima, dewi Samaria dan yang berkata: Demi allahmu yang hidup, hai Dan! serta: Demi dewa kekasihmu yang hidup, hai Bersyeba! mereka itu akan rebah dan tidak akan bangkit-bangkit lagi."
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.”
