Amos Propheta 8
1 Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce uncinus pomorum.
This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw a basket of fruit.
2 Et dixit: Quid tu vides Amos? Et dixi: Uncinum pomorum. Et dixit Dominus ad me: Venit finis super populum meum Israel: non adiiciam ultra ut pertranseam eum.
He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of fruit.” Then the Lord told me, “This is the end of my people Israel! I won't ignore their sins anymore.
3 Et stridebunt cardines templi in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: multi morientur: in omni loco proiicietur silentium.
On that day the Temple songs will become sorrowful wailing. There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Silence!” declares the Lord.
4 Audite hoc qui conteritis pauperem, et deficere facitis egenos terræ,
Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.
5 dicentes: Quando transibit mensis, et venundabimus merces: et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum: ut imminuamus mensuram, et augeamus siclum, et supponamus stateras dolosas,
You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?”
6 ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperes pro calceamentis, et quisquilias frumenti vendamus?
You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.
7 Iuravit Dominus in superbiam Iacob: Si oblitus fuero usque ad finem omnia opera eorum.
The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.
8 Numquid super isto non commovebitur terra, et lugebit omnis habitator eius: et ascendet quasi fluvius universus, et eiicicetur, et defluet quasi rivus Ægypti?
Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile river in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again.
9 Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: occidet sol in meridie, et tenebrescere faciam terram in die luminis:
On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime.
10 et convertam festivitates vestras in luctum, et omnia cantica vestra in planctum: et inducam super omne dorsum vestrum saccum, et super omne caput calvitium: et ponam eam quasi luctum unigeniti, et novissima eius quasi diem amarum.
I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.
11 Ecce dies veniunt, dicet Dominus: et mittam famem in terram: non famem panis, neque sitim aquæ, sed audiendi verbum Domini.
The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 Et commovebuntur a Mari usque ad mare, et ab Aquilone usque ad Orientem: circuibunt quærentes verbum Domini, et non invenient.
People will wander from sea to sea, from north to east, running to and fro searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.
13 In die illa deficient virgines pulchræ et adolescentes in siti.
On that day, even the beautiful girls and healthy young men will collapse from thirst.
14 Qui iurant in delicto Samariæ, et dicunt: Vivit Deus tuus Dan: et vivit via Bersabee, et cadent, et non resurgent ultra.
Those who swear by the disgraceful idols of Samaria, who take oaths like, “By the life of your god, Dan,” or “A pilgrimage to the god of Beersheba”—they will fall, and never rise again.
