Amós 8
1 Así me mostró el Señor Yahvé: he aquí un cesto de frutos de verano.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Dijo: “Amos, ¿qué ves?” Dije: “Una cesta de fruta de verano”. Entonces Yahvé me dijo, “El fin ha llegado a mi pueblo Israel. No volveré a pasar por delante de ellos.
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 Los cantos del templo serán lamentos en ese día”, dice el Señor Yahvé. “Los cadáveres serán muchos. En cada lugar los arrojarán en 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 Escuchad esto, vosotros que queréis tragar al necesitado, y hacer fracasar a los pobres de la tierra,
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 diciendo: “¿Cuándo pasará la luna nueva para que podamos vender el grano? Y el sábado, para poder comercializar el trigo, haciendo el efa pequeño, y el siclo grande, y negociar en falso con balanzas de engaño;
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 que podamos comprar a los pobres por plata, y a los necesitados por un par de sandalias, y vender las barreduras con el 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 Yahvé ha jurado por el orgullo de Jacob, “Seguramente nunca olvidaré ninguna de sus obras.
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 ¿No temblará la tierra por esto? y todos los que habitan en ella se lamentan? Sí, se levantará por completo como el río; y se agitará y volverá a hundirse, como el río de Egipto.
[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 Sucederá en ese día”, dice el Señor Yahvé, “que haré que el sol se ponga al mediodía, y oscureceré la tierra en el día 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 Convertiré tus fiestas en luto, y todos tus cantos en lamentos; y os haré vestir de cilicio todo vuestro cuerpo, y la calvicie en cada cabeza. Lo haré como el luto por un hijo único, y su final como un día 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 He aquí que vienen los días”, dice el Señor Yahvé, “que enviaré una hambruna a la tierra, no una hambruna de pan, ni la sed de agua, sino de escuchar las palabras de Yahvé.
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 Vagarán de mar en mar, y desde el norte hasta el este; correrán de un lado a otro para buscar la palabra de Yahvé, y no lo encontrará.
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 En ese día las vírgenes hermosas y los jóvenes desfallecerán de sed.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Esosque juran por el pecado de Samaria, y decir, ‘Como tu dios, Dan, vive,’ y, ‘Como el camino de Beersheba vive,’ caerán y no volverán a levantarse”.
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.”
