Amós 8
1 Jehová me enseñó así; y he aquí un canastillo de fruta de verano.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Y dijo: ¿Qué ves Amós? Y dije: Un canastillo de fruta de verano. Y Jehová me dijo: Venido ha el fin sobre mi pueblo Israel: nunca más le pasaré.
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 Y los cantores del templo aullarán en aquel día, dijo el Señor Jehová: los cuerpos muertos serán aumentados en todo lugar, echados 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 Oíd esto los que tragáis los menesterosos, y taláis los pobres de la tierra,
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 Diciendo: Cuando pasare el mes, venderemos el trigo; y pasada la semana, abriremos el pan; y achicaremos la medida, y engrandeceremos el precio, y falsearemos el peso engañoso.
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 Y compraremos los pobres por dinero, y los necesitados por un par de zapatos; y venderemos las ahechaduras del 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 Jehová juró por la gloria de Jacob: Que no me olvidaré para siempre de 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 se ha de estremecer la tierra sobre esto? ¿y todo habitador de ella, no llorará? y toda subirá como un río, y será arrojada, y será hundida 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 Y acaecerá en aquel día, dijo el Señor Jehová, que haré que se ponga el sol al mediodía, y la tierra cubriré de tinieblas 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 Y tornaré vuestras fiestas en lloro, y todos vuestros cantares en endechas, y haré poner saco sobre todos lomos, y peladura sobre toda cabeza; y tornarla he como en llanto de unigénito, su postrimería como 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 días, dijo el Señor Jehová, en los cuales enviaré hambre en la tierra: no hambre de pan, ni sed de agua, mas de oír palabra de Jehová.
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 irán vagabundos desde la una mar hasta la otra mar: desde el norte hasta el oriente discurrirán buscando palabra de Jehová, y 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 En aquel tiempo las doncellas hermosas, y los mancebos 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, y dicen: Vive tú, Dios de Dan; y: Vive el camino de Beer-seba: 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.”
