Amosi 8
1 Hiki ndicho ambacho bwana Yahwe amenionyesha. Tazama, kikapu cha matunda ya hari!
Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
2 Akasema, “Unaona nini, Amosi?” Nikasema, “Kikapu cha matunda ya hari.” Kisha Yahwe akanambia, “Mwisho umefika kwa watu wangu Israeli; sintowaumiza tena.
And He saith, 'What art thou seeing, Amos?' and I say, 'A basket of summer-fruit.' And Jehovah saith unto me: 'The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.
3 Nyimbo za kwenye hekalu zitakuwa vilio. Katika siku hiyo-hivi ndivyo asemavyo Bwana Yahwe. Mizoga itakuwa mingi, katika kila sehemu wataitupa katika ukimya!”
And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw — hush!
4 Lisikilizeni hili, ninyi mkanyagao maskini na kumuondoa fukara wa nchi.
Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
5 wakisema, “Wakati mwezi mpya utakapoisha, hivyo tunaweza kuuza mazao tena? Wakati siku ya Sabato itakapoisha, ili kwamba tuuze ngano? Tutafanya kipimo kidogo na kuongeza bei, tukidanganya kwa mizani za udanganyifu.
Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
6 Hivi ndivyo ambavyo tunaweza kuuza ngano mbaya, kununua fukara kwa fedha, na masikini kwa jozi moja ya kubadhi.”
To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
7 Yahwe ameapa kwa fahari ya Yakobo, “Hakika sintoweza kusahau kazi zao hata moja.”
Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: 'I forget not for ever any of their works.
8 Je nchi haitatetemeka kwa hili, na kila mmoja aishiye kuombolezea? Yote hayo yatainuka kama Mto Naili, nayo itataabika juu na kupwa tena, kama mto wa Misri.
For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.
9 “Itakuja siku ambayo -huu ndio usemi wa Bwana Yahwe- kwamba nitafanya jua litue wakati wa mchana, na nitaiweka giza dunia wakati wa mchana.
And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,
10 Nitazigeuza sikukuu zenu kuwa maombolezo na nyimbo zenu zote kuwa masikitiko. Nitawafanya wote kuvaa nguo za magunia na kipara juu ya kila kichwa. Nitayafanya haya kama maombolezo kwa mwana pekee, na siku ya uchungu mwisho wake.
And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
11 Tazama, siku zinakuja -asema Bwana Yahwe- wakati nitakapoleta njaa katika nchi, sio njaa ya mkate, wala kiu ya maji, ila kusikia maneno ya Yahwe.
Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
12 watatangatanga kutoka bahari hata bahari; watakimbia kutoka kaskazini kwenda magharibi kutafuta neno la Yahwe, lakini hawatalipata.
And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find.
13 Katika siku hiyo wanawali wazuri na wavulana watazimia kutokana na njaa.
In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.
14 Wale waapao kwa dhambi ya Samaria wataanguka na hawatainuka tena.”
Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen — and rise not again!'
