Amos 8

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

This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, 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.”

He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

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

The songs of the temple will become wailings in that day —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— many dead bodies, they are thrown everywhere! Silence!”

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

Listen to this, you who trample the needy and remove the poor of the land.

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,

They say, “When will the new moon be over, so we can sell grain again? When will the Sabbath day be over, so that we can sell wheat? We will make the measure small and increase the price, as we cheat with false scales.

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

This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.”

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

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their actions.”

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.”

Will not the land quake for this, and every one who lives in it mourn? All of it will rise up like the Nile River, and it will be tossed about and sink again, like the river of Egypt.

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

“It will come in that day —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— that I will make the sun set at noon, and I will darken the earth at daylight.

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.

I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and have baldness on every head. I will make it like mourning for an only son, and a bitter day to its end.

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.

Look, the days are coming —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Yahweh.

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.

They will stagger from sea to sea; they will run from the north to the east to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will 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 will faint from 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 who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, 'As your god lives, Dan,' and, 'As the way to Beersheba exists'— they will fall and never rise again.”