Amós 8
1 Assim o SENHOR me fez ver: eis um cesto com frutos de verão.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 E ele disse: O que vês, Amós? E eu disse: Um cesto com frutos de verão. Então o SENHOR me disse: Chegou o fim sobre meu povo Israel; não mais o tolerarei.
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 E os cânticos do templo serão gemidos naquele dia, diz o Senhor DEUS; os cadáveres serão muitos, em todo lugar serão lançados. Silêncio!
[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 tragais os necessitados, e arruinais os pobres 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 alimento? E o sábado, para abriremos os depósitos de trigo, e diminuirmos a medida, aumentarmos o preço, e fraudarmos com 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, e venderemos os refugos 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 O SENHOR jurou pela glória de Jacó: Eu nunca me esquecerei das obras deles.
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 A terra não se abalará por causa disto, e todo habitante dela não chorará? Certamente ela se levantará como um rio, se agitará, e se afundará como o rio do Egito.
[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 será naquele dia, diz o Senhor DEUS, que farei o sol se pôr ao meio-dia, e escurecerei a terra no dia claro.
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 vossas festas em luto, e todas as vossas canções em pranto; e farei com que todos se vistam de saco, e se façam calvas sobre todas as cabeças; e farei com que haja luto como de um filho único, e seu fim será como um dia amargo.
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 vêm dias, diz o Senhor DEUS, nos quais enviarei fome à terra; fome não de pão, nem sede de água, mas sim 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 sem rumo de mar a mar, do norte até o oriente; correrão de um lado para o outro em busca da palavra do SENHOR, mas não a encontrarão.
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 Naquele tempo as belas virgens e os rapazes desmaiarão de sede.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Quanto aos que juram pelo pecado de Samaria, e dizem: Vive o teu deus de Dã; e: Vive o caminho de Berseba; esses cairão, e nunca mais se levantarão.
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.”
