Amos 8
1 Ito ang ipinakita sa akin ng Panginoong Yahweh. Tingnan, isang basket ng mga bungang pantag-araw!
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Sinabi niya, “Ano ang nakikita mo, Amos?” Sinabi ko, “Isang basket ng mga bungang pantag-araw.” At sinabi ni Yahweh sa akin, parating na ang katapusan ng aking bansang Israel; hindi ko na sila kaaawaan pa.
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 Ang mga awit sa templo ay magiging pagtangis. Sa araw na iyon” —ito ang pahayag ng Panginoong Yahweh—”Magiging marami ang mga bangkay, sa bawat lugar itatapon nila ang mga ito sa katahimikan!”
[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, kayong mga umaapak sa mga nangangailangan at nagpapaalis sa mga mahihirap sa lupain.
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 Sinabi nila, “Kailan matatapos ang bagong buwan, upang muli kaming makapagbenta ng butil? At ang Araw ng Pamamahinga, kailan matatapos, upang makapagbenta kaming muli ng trigo? Gagawin naming mababa ang sukat at tataasan ang halaga, upang makapandaya kami ng maling timbang.
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 makapagbenta kami ng hindi magandang trigo at bilhin ng pilak ang mga mahihirap, isang pares ng sandalyas para sa nangangailangan.”
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 Sumumpa si Yahweh sa kapalaluan ni Jacob, “Tiyak na hindi ko malilimutan kailanman ang anumang ginawa nila.”
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 ba mayayanig ang lupain dahil sa mga ito at tatangis ang bawat isang nakatira rito? Ang lahat ng ito ay babangon tulad ng Ilog ng Nilo at tataas ang mga ito at muling lulubog tulad sa 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 “Darating ang mga ito sa araw na iyon”—ito ang pahayag ng Panginoong Yahweh— “na palulubugin ko ang araw sa tanghaling tapat at padidilimin ko ang buong daigdig sa liwanag ng 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 Gagawin kong pagdadalamhati ang inyong mga pista at ang lahat ng inyong mga awit ay sa panaghoy. Pagsusuutin ko kayong lahat ng telang magaspang at ang bawat ulo ay kakalbuhin. Gagawin kong pagdadalamhati tulad sa nag-iisang anak, at isang araw ng kapaitan sa bawat pagtatapos.
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 Tingnan, parating na ang mga araw”—ito ang pahayag ng Panginoong Yahweh— “Kapag magpapadala ako ng taggutom sa lupain, hindi sa kagutuman sa tinapay, ni pagkauhaw sa tubig, kundi sa pakikinig ng mga salita ni Yahweh.
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 Susuray-suray sila sa magkabilaang dagat; tatakbo sila mula sa hilaga patungo sa silangan upang hanapin ang salita ni Yahweh, ngunit hindi nila ito 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 iyon ang mga magagandang dalaga at ang mga binata ay manghihina mula sa pagkauhaw.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Sinumang sumusumpa sa kasalanan ng Samaria at sabihing, 'Buhay ang diyos mo, Dan' at, 'Buhay ang diyos ng Beerseba, —sila ay babagsak at kailanman ay hindi na muling babangon.”
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.”
