Amos 8

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

1 这是主耶和华让我看见的异象：看啊，一篮夏天的果子。

2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

2 耶和华问我：“阿摩司，你看见什么？”我说：“我看见一篮夏天的果子。”祂说：“我以色列子民的结局 到了，我不会再饶恕他们。

3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

3 到那日，宫殿里的歌声要变成哀号；尸横遍地，一片死寂。这是主耶和华说的。”

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

4 践踏贫民、灭绝穷人的人啊， 你们要听！

5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

5 你们盼望朔日 和安息日快点过去， 你们好售卖谷物。 你们用小升斗卖粮， 用加重的砝码收银子， 用诡诈的秤欺骗人。

6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

6 你们用银子买贫民， 以一双鞋买穷人为奴， 售卖掺了糠秕的麦子。

7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

7 耶和华凭雅各的骄傲起誓： “我决不会忘记你们的所作所为。

8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

8 这片土地要因此而震动， 所有的居民都要悲哀。 大地要像尼罗河一样涨起，如埃及的河流翻腾退落。”

9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

9 主耶和华说： “到那日，我要使太阳中午落下， 使大地在白天一片黑暗。

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

10 我要使你们的节期变为丧礼， 叫你们的欢歌变为哀歌。 我要使你们都腰束麻布，剃光头发； 我要使你们伤心欲绝，如丧独生子； 我要使那日成为痛苦的日子。”

11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

11 主耶和华说： “日子将到，我要使饥荒降在地上。 人饥饿非因无饼，干渴非因无水， 而是因为听不到耶和华的话。

12 People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

12 人们从南到北，从东到西 ， 在境内四处奔走， 要寻找耶和华的话却找不到。

13 In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.

13 “到那日， “美丽少女和青春少男都要因干渴而昏倒；

14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”

14 那些凭撒玛利亚、但和别示巴的神明起誓的， 都要跌倒，永不再起来。”