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Ekisero Ky’ebibala

Bino Mukama Katonda bye yandaga. Ne ndaba ekisero ekirimu ebibala ebyengedde. (A)Mukama n’ambuuza nti, “Amosi, kiki ky’olaba?”

Ne muddamu nti, “Ndaba ekisero ky’ebibala ebyengedde.”

Mukama n’alyoka aŋŋamba nti, “Ekiseera eky’okubonereza abaana ba Isirayiri kituuse. Siribasonyiwa nate.

(B)“Ku lunaku olwo,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda, “okuyimba kw’omu yeekaalu kulifuuka kukungubaga. Walibeerawo okufa okuyitirivu, emirambo nga gibunye wonna. Walibaawo akasiriikiriro.”

(C)Muwulire bino mmwe abalinnyirira abateesobola,
    era abasaanyaawo abanaku b’omu nsi,

(D)nga mwogera nti,

“Ennaku enkulu ez’Omwezi ogwa kaboneka ziggwaako ddi,
    tulyoke tutunde emmere yaffe ey’empeke,
era ne Ssabbiiti eggwaako ddi,
    tutunde eŋŋaano yaffe?”
Mukozesa minzaani enkyamu
    ne mwongera emiwendo
    ne mukozesa n’ebipimo ebitatuuse,
(E)mmwe abagula abaavu n’effeeza
    n’abanaku ne mubagula n’omugogo gw’engatto,
    ne mutundira ebisaaniiko mu ŋŋaano.

(F)Mukama yeeweredde amalala ga Yakobo ng’agamba nti, “Sigenda kwerabira bintu bye bakoze.

(G)“Ensi terikankana olw’ekyo,
    na buli abeeramu n’akungubaga?
Ensi yonna eritumbiira ng’omugga Kiyira
    n’ekka ng’amazzi
    ag’omugga gw’e Misiri bwe gakola.”

(H)Mukama Katonda agamba nti,

“Ku lunaku olwo, enjuba erigwiira mu ttuntu
    era ensi erikwata ekizikiza emisana ttuku.
10 (I)Embaga zammwe ez’eddini ndizifuula mikolo gya kukungubaga
    era okuyimba kwammwe kwonna kulifuuka kukaaba.
Mwenna nzija kubatuusa ku kwambala ebibukutu
    n’emitwe gyammwe mugimwe.
Olunaku olwo ndilufuula ng’olw’okukungubagira omwana owoobulenzi omu yekka,
    era n’enkomerero yaabyo ekaayire ddala.

11 (J)“Ekiseera kijja,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda,
    “lwe ndisindika enjala mu nsi yonna,
teriba njala ya mmere oba nnyonta y’amazzi,
    naye eriba enjala y’ekigambo kya Katonda.
12 (K)Abantu balibundabunda okuva ku nnyanja emu okudda ku ndala,
    bave mu bukiikakkono badde mu bukiikaddyo
nga banoonya ekigambo kya Mukama,
    naye tebalikifuna.

13 (L)“Mu biro ebyo,

“abawala ababalagavu n’abalenzi ab’amaanyi
    balizirika olw’ennyonta.
14 (M)Abo abaalayira eby’ensonyi eby’e Samaliya
    oba abaayogera nti, ‘Nga katonda wo bw’ali omulamu ggwe Ddaani,’
    oba nti, ‘Nga katonda w’e Beeruseba bw’ali omulamu,’
    baligwa obutayimuka nate.”

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(A) a basket of ripe fruit. “What do you see,(B) Amos?(C)” he asked.

“A basket(D) of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(E)

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](F) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(G)

Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor(H) of the land,(I)

saying,

“When will the New Moon(J) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market(K) wheat?”(L)
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating(M) with dishonest scales,(N)
buying the poor(O) with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.(P)

The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:(Q) “I will never forget(R) anything they have done.(S)

“Will not the land tremble(T) for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.(U)

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(V)
10 I will turn your religious festivals(W) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.(X)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(Y)
    and shave(Z) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(AA)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.(AB)

11 “The days are coming,”(AC) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine(AD) of hearing the words of the Lord.(AE)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.(AF)

13 “In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men(AG)
    will faint because of thirst.(AH)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria(AI)
    who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’(AJ)
    or, ‘As surely as the god[b] of Beersheba(AK) lives’—
    they will fall,(AL) never to rise again.(AM)

Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail
  2. Amos 8:14 Hebrew the way

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, 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 the Lord:

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.