¹Hezvi zvandakaratidzwa naIshe Jehovha, tarirai, tswanda inezvibereko zvezhizha.

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

²Akati, Amosi, unooneiko? Ini ndikati, Tswanda inezvibereko zvezhizha. Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri,

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.

³Nziyo dzetemberi dzichashanduka kuungudza nezuva iro, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha; zvitunha zvichavapo zvizhinji, vachazvikandira kunze kose vanyerere.

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!

⁴Inzwai chinhu ichi, iyemi, munoda kumedza vanoshaiwa, nokuparadza varombo venyika,

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

⁵muchiti: Kugara kwemwedzi kuchapfuura riniko, kuti titengese zviyo? Uye sabata, kuti tizarure matura egorosi? Tichatapudza efa, nokukurisa shekeri, tichinyengera nezviyero zvinonyengera;

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.

⁶kuti titenge varombo nesirivha, navanoshaiwa tichipiwa shangu mbiri, tichitengesa makoto ezviyo?

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

⁷Jehovha akapika noukuru hwaJakove, achiti, Zvirokwazvo, handingatongokangamwi rimwe ramabasa avo nokusingaperi.

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

⁸Ko nyika haingadederi pamusoro pechinhu ichi, mumwe nomumwe agerepo haangachemi here? Zvirokwazvo, ichakwira yose soRwizi, ichatutuma ndokudererazve, soRwizi, rweEgipita.

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.

⁹Zvino nezuva iro ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha ndichavirisa zuva masikati makuru, ndichaisa rima panyika achiri masikati.

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,

¹⁰Ndichashandura mitambo yenyu kuve kuchema, nenziyo dzenyu dzose kuve kurira kokuchema; ndichafukidza zviuno zvose masaga, nokuita misoro yose mhazha; ndichazviita sapanochemwa mwanakomana akazvarwa ari mumwechete, nokuguma kwazvo sezuva rakaipa kwazvo.

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.

¹¹Tarirai, mazuva anouya ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha andichatuma nzara panyika, isati iri nzara yezvokudya, kana nyota yemvura, asi yokunzwa mashoko aJehovha.

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.

¹²Vachadzungaira vachibva kugungwa vachienda kugungwa, vachibva kumusoro vachienda mabvazuva; vachamhanya pose-pose vachitsvaka shoko raJehovha, asi havangariwani.

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.

¹³Nezuva iro mhandara dzakanaka namajaya vachaziya nenyota.

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

¹⁴Vanopika vezviwi zveSamaria, vachiti, Namwari wako mupenyu, iwe Dhani; uye, Nenzira yeBheerishebha mhenyu, ivo vachawira pasi, vakasazomukazve.

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!`