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阿摩司書-Amos 第 8 章

8:1	主耶和華又指給我看：有一筐夏天的果子。 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me, and there was a basket of summer fruit.
8:2	祂說，阿摩司阿，你看見什麼？我說，一筐夏天的果子。耶和華對我說，我民以色列的結局到了；我必不再放過他們。 And He said, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Jehovah said to me, The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass them by again any more.
8:3	主耶和華說，那日殿中的詩歌必變為哀號。必有許多屍首在各處被人拋棄。你們不要作聲！ And the songs of the temple will be wailings In that day, declares the Lord Jehovah. The corpses will be many; In every place They will cast them. Hush!
8:4	你們這些渴求奪取窮乏人，要除滅地上困苦人的，當聽這話。 Hear this, you who pant after the needy To destroy the wretched of the earth,
8:5	你們說，月朔幾時過去，我們好賣糧？安息日幾時過去，我們好擺開麥子，把賣出用的量器弄小，把收銀用的法碼弄大，用詭詐的天平欺哄人； Saying, When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may lay open the wheat? In order to make the ephah small and the shekel large And to falsify the balances for deceit;
8:6	好用銀子買貧寒人，用一雙鞋換窮乏人，將壞了的麥子賣給人。 That we may buy the poor for silver And the needy for a pair of sandals, And sell the refuse of the wheat.
8:7	耶和華指著雅各的超絕起誓，說，他們的一切行為，我必永遠不忘。 Jehovah has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, I shall by no means forget any of their deeds forever.
8:8	地豈不因這事震動，住在其上的不也都悲哀麼？地必全然像尼羅河漲起，如同埃及河湧上落下。 Will the land not quake because of this, And will all who dwell in it not mourn? Indeed all of it will rise up like the River, And it will be driven and will sink like the river of Egypt.
8:9	主耶和華說，到那日，我必使日頭在午間落下，使地在白日的光中變暗。 And in that day, Declares the Lord Jehovah, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the land in the light of day.
8:10	我必使你們的節期變為悲哀，一切歌曲變為哀歌；我必使眾人腰束麻布，頭上光禿；也必使這場悲哀如喪獨生子，至終如痛苦的日子一樣。 And I will turn your feasts into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring up sackcloth upon all the loins And baldness upon every head; And I will make it like the mourning for an only child And the end of it like a bitter day.
8:11	主耶和華說，日子將到，我必打發饑荒臨到這地；人飢餓非因無餅，乾渴非因無水，乃因聽不見耶和華的話。 Indeed days are coming, Declares the Lord Jehovah, When I will send a hunger into the land, Not a hunger for bread Nor a thirst for water, But for hearing the words of Jehovah.
8:12	他們必飄流，從這海到那海，從北邊到東邊；往來奔跑尋求耶和華的話，卻尋不著。 And they will totter from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will rove about, seeking the word of Jehovah, But they will not find it.
8:13	當那日，美貌的處女和少年的男子，必因乾渴發昏。 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men Will swoon because of thirst.
8:14	那指著撒瑪利亞罪愆起誓的，說，但哪，我們指著你那裡永活的神起誓！又說，我們指著別是巴永活的道起誓；這些人都必仆倒，不再起來。 They who swear by the trespass of Samaria And say, As your god lives, O Dan! And, As the way of Beer-sheba lives! Indeed they will fall and not rise up again.

阿摩司書-Amos 第 8 章