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

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

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

²He 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.

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

³The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

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

⁴Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

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

⁵Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

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

⁶that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

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

⁷Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

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

⁸Won’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.

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

⁹It 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.

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.

¹⁰I 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.

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

¹¹Behold, 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 the words of Yahweh.

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

¹²They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it.

¹³Nezuva iro mhandara dzakanaka namajaya vachaziya nenyota.

¹³In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.

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

¹⁴Those 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.”