Amós 8

1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

2 He said, "Amos, what do you see?"

I said, "A basket of summer fruit."

Then Yahweh said to me,

"The end has come on my people Israel.

I will not again pass by them any more.

3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day," says the Lord Yahweh.

"The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,

and cause the poor of the land to fail,

5 saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?

And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,

making the ephah*8:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel small, and the shekel*8:5 a normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. large,

and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

6 that we may buy the poor for silver,

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’"

7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,

"Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8 Won’t the land tremble for this,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;

and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh,

"that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,

and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning,

and all your songs into lamentation;

and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,

and baldness on every head.

I will make it like the mourning for an only son,

and its end like a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh,

"that I will send a famine in the land,

not a famine of bread,

nor a thirst for water,

but of hearing Yahweh’s words.

12 They will wander from sea to sea,

and from the north even to the east;

they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word,

and will not find it.

13 In that day the beautiful virgins

and the young men will faint for thirst.

14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,

and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’

and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’

they will fall, and never rise up again."

Te Kete Hua Raumati

1 I whakakitea anō tēnei e te Ariki, e Ihowā, ki ahau – nā, he kete hua raumati. 2 Nā, ka mea ia, "Ko te aha te kitea ana e koe, e Āmoho?"

Anō rā ko ahau, "He kete hua raumati."

Anō rā ko Ihowā ki ahau, "Kua tae mai te mutunga ki tāku iwi, ki a Īharaira; e kore tā rātou e whakarērea noatia e ahau ā muri ake nei.

3 "He auē anō ngā waiata o te temepara i taua rā," e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā; "ka maha ngā tinana mate i ngā wāhi katoa; ka ākiritia pukutia atu."

4 Whakarongo ki tēnei, e te hunga i horomia ai te rawakore,

i meinga ai te hunga iti o te whenua kia ngohe;

5 e kī ana koutou,

"Āhea pahemo ai te kōwhititanga marama,

kia hoko wīti ai tātou,

te hāpati hoki,

kia whakaputaia atu ai te wīti e tātou?"

Ka meinga te epa kia iti, te hekere kia nui,

me te teka ki ngā pāuna tinihanga;

6 kia hokona ai e tātou ngā ware ki te hiriwa,

te rawakore ki ngā hū e rua;

nā, ko te wīti rukenga me hoko atu.

7 Kua oatitia e Ihowā te nui o Hākopa: "E kore ahau e wareware ki tētahi o ā rātou mahi ā ake ake.

8 E kore ianei te whenua e wiri ki tēnei?

E kore ianei te hunga katoa e noho ana i reira e tangi?

Āe rā, ka pari katoa ake nei hoki ānō ko te awa;

ka ākina e te hau, ka hoki iho anō,

ka pērā me te awa o Īhipa."

9 "Nā, i taua rā," e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā,

"ka meinga e ahau te rā kia toene i te awatea,

ā, ka pōuri i ahau te whenua i te mea e mārama ana anō te rā.

10 Ka puta kē anō i ahau ā koutou hākari hei tangihanga,

ā koutou waiata katoa hei apakura;

he taratara tāku kākahu mō ngā hope katoa;

mō ngā māhunga katoa he pākira.

Ka rite i ahau ki te tangihanga ki te huatahi,

ā, ko tōna mutunga hei rā mamae.

11 "Nanā, kei te haere mai ngā rā," e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā,

"e tukua ai e ahau he hemokai ki te whenua,

ehara i te hemokai taro, ehara anō i te matewai;

engari he hiahia kia rongo i ngā kupu a Ihowā.

12 Ā, ka ātiutiu atu rātou i tētahi moana ki tētahi moana,

i te raki ki te rāwhiti;

ka kōpikopiko, he rapu i te kupu a Ihowā;

heoi e kore e kitea.

13 "I taua rā

ka hemo ngā wāhina ātaahua,

me ngā taitama, i te matewai.

14 Nā, ko te hunga e oati ana i te hē o Hamaria,

e kī ana, ‘Kei te ora tōu Atua, e Rāna,’

me tēnei, ‘Kei te ora te tikanga o Peerehepa’ –

ka taka rawa rātou,

e kore anō e ara ā muri ake nei."