Amos 8

1 Afei nea Otumfo Awurade yi kyerɛɛ me ni: kɛntɛn a aduaba a abere wɔ mu.

Thus has Lord YHWH showed me, and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.

2 Obisae se, “Dɛn na wuhu, Amos?” Mibuae se, “Kɛntɛn a wɔde nnuaba a abere ahyɛ no ma.” Na Awurade ka kyerɛɛ me se, “Me nkurɔfo Israelfo bere no aso; meremfa wɔn ho nkyɛ wɔn bio.”

And He says, “What are you seeing, Amos?” And I say, “A basket of summer-fruit.” And YHWH says to me: “The end has come to My people Israel, I no longer pass over to it anymore.

3 Sɛnea Otumfo Awurade se ni, “Saa da no, hyiadan nnwonto bɛdan agyaadwotwa. Wɔbɛbɔ afunu bebree apete baabiara! Enti yɛ komm!”

And female singers have howled of a palace in that day,” A declaration of Lord YHWH, “Many [are] the carcasses, into any place throw—hush!”

4 Muntie saa asɛm yi, mo a mutiatia mmɔborɔfo so, na mopam ahiafo fi wɔn asase so,

Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, To cause the poor of the land to cease,

5 na moka se, “Bere bɛn na ɔsram foforo betwa mu ama yɛatɔn aduan, na Homeda bɛba awiei ama yɛadi awi gua?” Sɛ mobɛhyɛ susukoraa mu na moatoto ɔbo so na mode nsania a wɔamia mu asisi atɔfo,

Saying, “When does the new moon pass, And we sell ground grain? And the Sabbath, and we open out pure grain? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use balances of deceit perversely.

6 na mode dwetɛ atɔ ahiafo na mmɔborɔfo nso moatɔn wɔn agye mpaboa, na moapra awi ase afra awi mu atɔn.

To purchase the poor with money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Indeed, the refuse of the pure grain we sell.”

7 Awurade de Yakob ahohoahoa aka ntam se: “Me werɛ remfi biribiara a wɔayɛ da.

YHWH has sworn by the excellence of Jacob: “I do not forget any of their works forever.

8 “Asase renwosow wɔ nea asi yi ho ana, na wɔn a wɔte mu nyinaa rentwa adwo ana? Asase no nyinaa bɛma ne ho so te sɛ Nil ebubu afa so, na asan atwe bio te sɛ Misraim asubɔnten.”

Does the land not tremble for this, And every dweller in it has mourned? And all of it has come up as a flood. And it has been cast out, and has sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.

9 Sɛnea Otumfo Awurade se ni, “Saa da no, mɛma owia atɔ owigyinae, na mama sum aduru asase so awia ketee.

And it has come to pass in that day,” A declaration of Lord YHWH, “I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

10 Mɛdan mo nyamesom aponto ama ayɛ awerɛhowdi na mo nnwonto nyinaa adan osu. Mɛma mo nyinaa afura atweaatam na mayi mo tinwi. Mɛyɛ saa da no te sɛ ɔba koro ho awerɛhowdida na awiei no ayɛ sɛ da a ɛyɛ nwen.

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 “Nna no reba” sɛnea Otumfo Awurade se ni, “Mɛma ɔkɔm aba asase no so, ɛnyɛ aduankɔm anaa osukɔm, na mmom, Awurade asɛm ho kɔm.

Behold, days are coming,” A declaration of Lord YHWH, “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 YHWH.

12 Nnipa bɛtɔ ntintan akyinkyin afi po so akɔ po so, na wɔakyinkyin afi atifi fam akɔ apuei fam, sɛ wɔrekɔhwehwɛ Awurade asɛm, nanso wɔrenhu.

And they have wandered from sea to sea, And from north even to east, They go to and fro to seek the word of YHWH, And they do not find [it].

13 “Na saa da no “mmabaa ahoɔfɛfo ne mmarimaa ahoɔdenfo bɛtotɔ beraw esiane osukɔm nti.

In that day the beautiful virgins, And the young men, faint with thirst.

14 Wɔn a wɔde Samaria aniwu abosom ka ntam, anaa wɔde Dan ne Beer-Seba abosom ka ntam no, wɔbɛhwehwe ase na wɔrensɔre bio.”

Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And who have said, Your god lives, O Dan, And, The way of Beer-Sheba lives, Indeed, they have fallen and do not rise again!”