Amosi 8
1 Tala makambo oyo Nkolo Yawe alakisaki ngai: kitunga etonda na bambuma etela.
Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
2 Atunaki ngai: — Amosi, ozali komona nini? Nazongisaki: — Nazali komona kitunga etonda na bambuma etela. Yawe alobaki na ngai: — Tango ekoki mpo na bato na Ngai, Isalaele; pamba te nakolimbisa bango lisusu te.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer-fruit. And Jehovah said unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.
3 Na mokolo wana, banzembo ya esengo kati na bandako ekobongwana bileli, elobi Nkolo Yawe. Bakobwaka bibembe ebele bipai na bipai mpe bakosalela bango matanga te.
And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!
4 Boyoka makambo oyo, bino bato oyo bonyokolaka bato bakelela mpe bonyataka babola kati na mokili.
Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
5 Bozali koloba: « Feti ya ebandeli ya sanza ekoleka tango nini mpo ete toteka ble na biso? Tango nini mokolo ya Saba ekosila mpo ete tofungola bibombelo na biso ya ble? » Tokosalela bakopo ya mike mpo ete tomatisa talo, mpe tokosalela bimekelo ya lokuta.
saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances for deceit:
6 Tokosomba mobola na palata mpe moto akelela na motuya ya mapapa mibale, bongo tokoteka ata basalite ya ble.
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.
7 Mpo na lolendo ya Jakobi, Yawe alapi ndayi na maloba oyo: « Nakobosana misala na bango ata moko te.
Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works.
8 Mpo na yango, mokili ekolenga, mpe bato na yango nyonso bakozala na matanga. Mokili mobimba ekotomboka lokola ebale Nili oyo etondi na mayi; ekokoma koningana-ningana mpe ekokita lokola ebale ya Ejipito.
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall wholly rise up like the Nile; and it shall surge and sink down, as the river of Egypt.
9 Na mokolo wana, » elobi Nkolo Yawe, « nakosala ete moyi elala na midi, mpe nakoyeisa molili na mokili na moyi makasi.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day.
10 Nakokomisa mikolo ya bafeti na bino mikolo ya matanga, banzembo na bino ya esengo banzembo ya mawa. Nakosala ete bino nyonso bolata basaki, mpe bakokokola bino suki ya moto. Nakoyeisa matanga kati na mokili lokola matanga ya libota oyo esili kokufisa mwana se moko oyo bazalaki na ye, mpe suka na yango ekozala bobele se pasi makasi.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Na mikolo ekoya, » elobi Nkolo Yawe, « nakotinda nzala makasi kati na mokili; ekozala te nzala ya bilei to posa ya mayi, kasi ekozala nzala ya koyoka Liloba na Yawe.
Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.
12 Bato bakotelengana na bibale nyonso, bakoyengayenga longwa na nor kino na este mpo na koluka Liloba na Yawe, kasi bakotikala komona yango te.
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
13 Na mokolo wana, bilenge basi ya kitoko mpe mibali ya makasi bakokufa na posa ya mayi.
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
14 Bato oyo balapaka ndayi na kombo ya nzambe ya ekeko ya Samari mpe balobaka: ‹ Dani, lokola nzambe na yo azali na bomoi › to ‹ lokola nzambe ya Beri-Sheba azali na bomoi, › bakokweya mpe bakotelema lisusu te. »
they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, [As] thy god, O Dan, liveth! and, [As] the way of Beer-sheba liveth! even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
