Amos, 8

1. These things the Lord has revealed to me. And behold, a hook to draw down fruit.

1. Evo što mi pokaza Jahve Gospod: gle, kotarica zrela ploda:

2. And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A hook to draw down fruit.” And the Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel. I will no longer pass through them.”

2. "Što vidiš, Amose?" - upita me. "Kotaricu zrela ploda", rekoh. Tada mi Jahve reèe: "Moj narod izraelski dozreo je za propast; neæu ga više štedjeti.

3. And the hinges of the temple will creak in that day, says the Lord God. Many will die. Silence will be thrown away in all places.

3. I hramske æe pjevaèice jaukati toga dana - rijeè je Jahve Gospoda - bit æe mnoštvo trupla, svuda æe se bacati."

4. Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.

4. Slušajte ovo, vi što gazite potrebnika i satirete uboge u zemlji!

5. You say, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales,

5. Kažete: "Kad li æe mlaðak proæi, da prodamo žito, i subota, da tržimo pšenicu. Smanjujuæ' efu, poveæavajuæi šekel, da varamo krivim mjerama:

6. in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?”

6. da kupimo siromaha za novac, potrebita za sandale, i da prodajemo otražak od žita.

7. The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works.

7. Zakle se Jahve Ponosom Jakovljevim: "Dovijeka neæu zaboraviti nijednoga vašeg djela."

8. Will not the earth shudder over this, and all its inhabitants mourn, and all rise up like a river, and be cast out, and flow away like the river of Egypt?

8. Neæe l' se od toga zemlja potresti, protužiti svi njeni stanovnici, neæe li se sva podiæi kao Nil, spustiti kao Rijeka egipatska?

9. And it will be in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun will decline at midday, and I will cause the earth to become dark on the day of light.

9. "Toga æu dana - rijeè je Jahve Gospoda - uèiniti da sunce zapadne u podne, i pomraèit æu zemlju u po bijela dana.

10. And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your hymns into lamentation. And I will put sackcloth over every one of your backs, and baldness on every head. And I will begin it like the mourning for an only-begotten son, and complete it like a bitter day.

10. Okrenut æu svetkovine vaše u kuknjavu i sve vaše pjevanje u tužaljku; obuæi æu u kostrijet svako bedro, oæelavit æu svaku glavu. Bit æe kao kad se tuži za jedincem, i što ostane, bit æe kao dan gorèine."

11. Behold, the days pass, says the Lord, and I will send a famine on the earth: not a famine of bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord.

11. "Evo, dani dolaze - rijeè je Jahve Gospoda - kad æu poslati glad na zemlju, ne glad kruha ni žeð vode, veæ slušanja rijeèi Jahvine.

12. And they will move even from sea to sea, and from the North all the way to the East. They will wander around seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it.

12. Tumarat æe od mora do mora, od sjevera do istoka potucati se ištuæi rijeè Jahvinu, ali je neæe naæi.

13. In that day, beautiful virgins, and young men, will fail because of thirst.

13. U onaj æe dan obamirati od žeði lijepe djevojke i mladiæi.

14. They swear by the offense of Samaria, and they say, “As your God lives, Dan,” and “The way of Beer-sheba lives.” And they will fall, and they will not rise up any more.

14. Koji se kunu Grijehom samarijskim i zaklinju se: 'Tako živ bio bog tvoj, Dane!' i: 'Tako živ bio Ljubimac tvoj, Beer Šebo!' oni æe pasti i nikad ustati neæe."