Amós 8
1 O Senhor Jehovah assim me mostrou: e eis aqui um cesto de fructos do verão.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 E disse: Que vês, Amós? E eu disse: Um cesto de fructos do verão. Então o Senhor me disse: Tem vindo o fim sobre o meu povo Israel; d'aqui por diante nunca mais passarei por elle.
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 Mas os canticos do templo serão ouvidos n'aquelle dia, diz o Senhor Jehovah: multiplicar-se-hão os cadaveres, em todos os logares, serão lançados fóra em silencio.
[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 Ouvi isto, vós que anhelaes o abatimento do necessitado; e isto para destruirdes os miseraveis da terra:
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 Dizendo: Quando passará a lua nova, para vendermos o grão? e o sabbado, para abrirmos os celleiros de trigo? diminuindo o epha, e augmentando o siclo, e falsificando as balanças enganosas;
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 Para comprarmos os pobres por dinheiro, e os necessitados por um par de sapatos? então venderemos as cascas do trigo.
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 Jurou o Senhor pela gloria de Jacob: Eu me não esquecerei de todas as suas obras para sempre.
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 Por causa d'isto não se commoveria a terra? e não choraria todo aquelle que habita n'ella? certamente levantar-se-ha toda como um rio, e será arrojada, e será fundida como pelo rio do Egypto.
[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 E succederá que, n'aquelle dia, diz o Senhor, farei que o sol se ponha ao meio dia, e a terra se entenebreça no dia da luz.
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 E tornarei as vossas festas em luto, e todos os vossos canticos em lamentações, e farei pôr sacco sobre todos os lombos, e calva sobre toda a cabeça; e farei que isso seja como luto do filho unico, e o seu fim como dia de amarguras.
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 Eis que veem dias, diz o Senhor Jehovah, em que enviarei fome sobre a terra, não fome de pão, nem sêde de agua, mas de ouvir as palavras do Senhor.
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 E irão vagabundos de um mar até outro mar, e do norte até ao oriente: correrão por toda a parte, buscando a palavra do Senhor, mas não a acharão.
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 N'aquelle dia as virgens formosas e os mancebos desmaiarão á sêde.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Os que juram pelo delicto de Samaria, e dizem: Vive o teu deus, ó Dan, e: Vive o caminho de Berseba; e cairão, e não se levantarão mais.
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.”
