Amosi 8
1 Bino Mukama Katonda bye yandaga. Ne ndaba ekisero ekirimu ebibala ebyengedde.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 Mukama n’ambuuza nti, “Amosi, kiki ky’olaba?” Ne muddamu nti, “Ndaba ekisero ky’ebibala ebyengedde.” Mukama n’alyoka aŋŋamba nti, “Ekiseera eky’okubonereza abaana ba Isirayiri kituuse. Siribasonyiwa nate.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD to me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3 “Ku lunaku olwo,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda, “okuyimba kw’omu yeekaalu kulifuuka kukungubaga. Walibeerawo okufa okuyitirivu, emirambo nga gibunye wonna. Walibaawo akasiriikiriro.”
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence.
4 Muwulire bino mmwe abalinnyirira abateesobola, era abasaanyaawo abanaku b’omu nsi,
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5 nga mwogera nti, “Ennaku enkulu ez’Omwezi ogwa kaboneka ziggwaako ddi, tulyoke tutunde emmere yaffe ey’empeke, era ne Ssabbiiti eggwaako ddi, tutunde eŋŋaano yaffe?” Mukozesa minzaani enkyamu ne mwongera emiwendo ne mukozesa n’ebipimo ebitatuuse,
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 by deceit?
6 mmwe abagula abaavu n’effeeza n’abanaku ne mubagula n’omugogo gw’engatto, ne mutundira ebisaaniiko mu ŋŋaano.
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 Mukama yeeweredde amalala ga Yakobo ng’agamba nti, “Sigenda kwerabira bintu bye bakoze.
The LORD hath sworn by the excellence of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 “Ensi terikankana olw’ekyo, na buli abeeramu n’akungubaga? Ensi yonna eritumbiira ng’omugga Kiyira n’ekka ng’amazzi ag’omugga gw’e Misiri bwe gakola.”
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth in it? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood: and it shall be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.
9 Mukama Katonda agamba nti, “Ku lunaku olwo, enjuba erigwiira mu ttuntu era ensi erikwata ekizikiza emisana ttuku.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 Embaga zammwe ez’eddini ndizifuula mikolo gya kukungubaga era okuyimba kwammwe kwonna kulifuuka kukaaba. Mwenna nzija kubatuusa ku kwambala ebibukutu n’emitwe gyammwe mugimwe. Olunaku olwo ndilufuula ng’olw’okukungubagira omwana owoobulenzi omu yekka, era n’enkomerero yaabyo ekaayire ddala.
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 of an only [son], and the end of it as a bitter day.
11 “Ekiseera kijja,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda, “lwe ndisindika enjala mu nsi yonna, teriba njala ya mmere oba nnyonta y’amazzi, naye eriba enjala y’ekigambo kya Katonda.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 Abantu balibundabunda okuva ku nnyanja emu okudda ku ndala, bave mu bukiikakkono badde mu bukiikaddyo nga banoonya ekigambo kya Mukama, naye tebalikifuna.
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].
13 “Mu biro ebyo, “abawala ababalagavu n’abalenzi ab’amaanyi balizirika olw’ennyonta.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 Abo abaalayira eby’ensonyi eby’e Samaliya oba abaayogera nti, ‘Nga katonda wo bw’ali omulamu ggwe Ddaani,’ oba nti, ‘Nga katonda w’e Beeruseba bw’ali omulamu,’ baligwa obutayimuka nate.”
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise again.
