A Vision of a Basket of Fruit
1 I had another vision from the Sovereign Lord. In it I saw a basket of fruit. 2 The Lord asked, “Amos, what do you see?”
“A basket of fruit,” I answered.
The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel. I will not change my mind again about punishing them. 3 On that day the songs in the palace will become cries of mourning. There will be dead bodies everywhere. They will be cast out in silence.”
Israel's Doom
4 Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country. 5 You say to yourselves, “We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the scales to cheat our customers. 6 We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave.”
7 The Lord, the God of Israel, has sworn, “I will never forget their evil deeds. 8 And so the earth will quake, and everyone in the land will be in distress. The whole country will be shaken; it will rise and fall like the Nile River. 9 The time is coming when I will make the sun go down at noon and the earth grow dark in daytime. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken. 10 I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.
11 “The time is coming when I will send famine on the land. People will be hungry, but not for bread; they will be thirsty, but not for water. They will hunger and thirst for a message from the Lord. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken. 12 People will wander from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and then on around from the north to the east. They will look everywhere for a message from the Lord, but they will not find it. 13 On that day even healthy young men and women will collapse from thirst. 14 Those who swear by the idols of Samaria, who say, ‘By the god of Dan’ or ‘By the god of Beersheba’—those people will fall and not rise again.”
Redzējums par augļu grozu – Israēla gals
1 To man parādīja Kungs Dievs, redzi: grozs ar gataviem augļiem! 2 Un viņš teica: “Ko tu redzi, Amoss?” Es teicu: “Grozu ar gataviem augļiem.” Tad Kungs man teica:
“Gatava mana tauta Israēls,
es vairs nebūšu pie tiem!
3 Tempļa dziesmas todien kļūs par gaudām,
saka Kungs Dievs,
daudz līķu visās vietās,
tos izmēzīs klusu!”
4 Klausieties nu, nabagu apspiedēji,
kas no zemes trūcīgos deldējat,
5 kas sakāt:
“Kad paies mēnesis, mēs pārdosim labību,
un pēc sabata mēs tirgosim kviešus,
mēru samazināsim, bet atsvariem pieliksim,
tik krāpsimies ar greiziem svariem!
6 Pirksim par sudrabu nabagus
un trūcīgos par sandaļu pāri,
pārdosim pelavas kā kviešus!”
7 Kungs ir zvērējis pie Jēkaba lepnuma:
“Nemūžam es neaizmirsīšu, ko tie darījuši!”
8 Vai netrīcēs zeme tā dēļ un nesēros visi, kas tur mīt?
Nu celsies kā Nīla viss – mutuļos, applūdīs kā Nīla Ēģiptē!
9 “Un tajā dienā,”
saka Kungs Dievs,
“es likšu, lai saule pusdienā noriet,
aptumšošu zemi dienā, kad gaišs!
10 Es jūsu svētumu par sērām pārvērtīšu
un visas jūsu dziesmas par vaimanām,
es pats visiem uz gurniem maisu uzvilkšu
un ik galvai pliku pauri noskūšu,
es darīšu, ka tie sēros kā par vienīgo dēlu,
beigas būs kā rūgta diena!
11 Redzi, nāk dienas, saka Kungs Dievs,
kad es zemei uzsūtīšu badu,
ne badu pēc maizes, ne slāpes pēc ūdens,
bet gan izdzirdēt Kunga vārdus!
12 Tie klīdīs no jūras līdz jūrai,
no ziemeļiem līdz austrumiem klaiņos,
meklēdami Kunga vārdus, –
bet neatradīs!
13 Tajā dienā skaistās jaunavas un jaunekļi
sagums slāpēs!
14 Tie, kas zvērēja pie Samarijas Ašimas,
kas teica: lai dzīvo tavs Dievs, Dān,
lai dzīvo Bēršebas ceļš! –
tie kritīs un necelsies!”
