¹夏天果子的异象

¹Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.

²耶和华说：“阿摩司，你看见什么？”我回答：“一篮夏天的果子。”他跟着对我说：“我民以色列的结局到了，我不再放过他们。

²And He saith, `What art thou seeing, Amos?` and I say, `A basket of summer-fruit.` And Jehovah saith unto me: `The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.

³“到那日，圣殿的歌声必变为哀号；尸首众多，拋弃各处；你们要肃静。”这是主耶和华的宣告。

³And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw — hush!

⁴责备富人欺压贫寒践踏穷乏人又除掉国中困苦人的，你们要听这话。

⁴Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

⁵你们说：“月朔什么时候过去，好让我们可以卖五谷；安息日什么时候结束，好让我们可以开市卖谷物。我们卖东西就把升斗弄小，收银子却用加重了的法码，我们要用假秤欺骗人。

⁵Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

⁶我们用银子买穷人，用一双鞋换取穷乏人；连麦碎也卖掉。”

⁶To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

⁷耶和华指着雅各所夸耀的起誓说：“我必永远记着他们所作的一切；

⁷Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.

⁸地震“这地不应为此震动，所有住在地上的不应悲哀吗？这地必像尼罗河高涨翻腾，像埃及的大河退落。

⁸For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.

⁹黑暗“到那日，这是耶和华的宣告：我必使太阳在正午落下，在白昼使地变成昏暗。

⁹And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

¹⁰悲哀“我必使你们欢乐的节期变为悲哀的日子，把你们的歌声都变为哀哭。我必使你们各人腰束麻带，头都剃光了；我必使你们悲哀，好像丧了独生子，自始至终都是痛苦的。

¹⁰And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

¹¹饥饿“看哪！日子快到，这是主耶和华的宣告。我必使饥荒临到这地，这饥荒不是因为没有食物，这干渴不是因为没有水；而是因为听不见耶和华的话。

¹¹Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.

¹²他们从这海飘流到那海，从北到东，到处奔走，要寻求耶和华的话，却寻不见。

¹²And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find.

¹³口渴“到那日，美丽的少女和勇士都因干渴昏倒。

¹³In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.

¹⁴那些指着撒玛利亚亚示玛女神（“亚示玛女神”原文作“罪”）起誓，或是那些指着但的神，或别是巴的神（“别是巴的神”原文作“别是巴的道”）起誓的，他们要倒下，再不能起来。”

¹⁴Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen — and rise not again!`