Amos 8
1 Ganito nagpakita ang Panginoong Dios sa akin: at, narito, ang isang bakol ng bunga ng taginit.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 At kaniyang sinabi, Amos, anong iyong nakikita? At aking sinabi, Isang bakol ng bunga ng taginit. Nang magkagayo'y sinabi ng Panginoon sa akin, Ang wakas ay dumating sa aking bayang Israel; hindi na ako daraan pa uli sa kanila.
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 At ang mga awit sa templo ay magiging mga pananambitan sa araw na yaon, sabi ng Panginoong Dios: ang mga bangkay ay magiging marami; sa bawa't dako ay tahimik silang itatapon.
[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 Pakinggan ninyo ito, Oh kayong nananakmal ng mapagkailangan, at inyong pinagkukulang ang dukha sa lupain,
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 Na sinasabi, Kailan daraan ang bagong buwan, upang tayo'y makapagbili ng gugulayin at ang sabbath, upang ating mailabas ang trigo? na gawing munti ang efa, at malaki ang siklo, at gumawa ng karayaan sa magdarayang timbangan;
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 Upang ating mabili ng pilak ang dukha, at ng dalawang paang panyapak ang mapagkailangan, at maipagbili ang pinagbithayan sa 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 Ang Panginoon ay sumumpa alangalang sa karilagan ng Jacob, Tunay na hindi ko kalilimutan kailan man ang alin man sa kanilang mga gawa.
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 Hindi baga manginginig ang lupain dahil dito, at mananaghoy ang bawa't tumatahan doon? oo, sasampang buo na gaya ng Ilog; at mababagabag at lulubog uli, gaya ng Ilog ng 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 At mangyayari sa araw na yaon, sabi ng Panginoong Dios, na aking palulubugin ang araw sa katanghaliang tapat, at aking padidilimin ang lupa sa maliwanag na araw.
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 At aking papalitan ng panaghoy ang inyong mga kapistahan, at taghoy ang lahat ninyong awit; at ako'y maglalagay ng kayong magaspang sa lahat na balakang, at kakalbuhan sa bawa't ulo; at aking gagawing gaya ng pagtaghoy sa isang bugtong na anak, at ang wakas niyaon ay gaya ng mapanglaw na araw.
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 Narito, ang mga araw ay dumarating, sabi ng Panginoong Dios, na ako'y magpapasapit ng kagutom sa lupain, hindi kagutom sa tinapay, o kauhawan man dahil sa tubig, kundi sa pagkarinig ng mga salita ng Panginoon.
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 At sila'y magsisilaboy sa dagat at dagat, at mula sa hilagaan hanggang sa silanganan; sila'y magsisitakbo ng paroo't parito upang hanapin ang salita ng Panginoon, at hindi masusumpungan.
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 Sa araw na yaon ay manglulupaypay sa uhaw ang mga magandang dalaga at ang mga binata.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Silang nagsisisumpa sa pamamagitan ng kasalanan ng Samaria, at nagsasabi, Buhay ang Dios mo, Oh Dan; at, Buhay ang daan ng Beer-seba; sila'y mangabubuwal, at kailan may hindi na mangakababangon.
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.”
