Amós 8
1 ʼAdonay Yavé me mostró: Mira ahí una cesta con frutas de verano.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Y dijo: ¿Qué ves, Amós? Y respondí: Una cesta con frutas de verano. Entonces Yavé me dijo: Mi pueblo Israel está maduro. No lo toleraré más.
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 Aquel día, dice ʼAdonay Yavé, los carruajes del palacio se convertirán en aullidos. Muchos serán los cadáveres que en silencio serán echados en cualquier lugar.
[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 Oigan esto ustedes, los que pisotean al necesitado y destruyen a los pobres de la tierra,
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 mientras dicen: ¿Cuándo pasará la luna nueva para que vendamos grano, o el sábado, para que ofrezcamos trigo, para reducir el peso y aumentar el precio, para engañar con balanza falsa,
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 comprar a los pobres por dinero y a los necesitados por un par de sandalias?
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 Por causa del orgullo de Jacob, Yavé juró: ¡No olvidaré jamás todas 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 harán luto todos sus habitantes? Subirá toda como un río, crecerá y mermará como el Nilo 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 En aquel día, dice ʼAdonay Yavé, ocultaré el sol al mediodía, oscureceré la tierra en pleno día,
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 sus fiestas en duelo y todos sus cánticos en lamentos. Impulsaré a que toda cintura se cubra de tela áspera, y que toda cabeza se rape. Les impondré un duelo como por el unigénito, y su fin será un amargo día.
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 Ciertamente vienen días, dice ʼAdonay Yavé, cuando enviaré hambre a la tierra, no hambre de pan, ni sed de agua, sino de oír las Palabras de Yavé.
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 Irán errantes de mar a mar, y vagarán en busca de la Palabra de Yavé desde el norte hasta el oriente, pero no la hallarán.
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 Aquel día las hermosas doncellas y los jóvenes desmayarán de sed.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Los que juran por el pecado de Samaria: ¡Por tu ʼElohim, oh Dan! Y: ¡Por el camino a Beerseba caerán, y nunca más se levantarán!
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.”
