1
Haya ndiyo aliyonionyesha Bwana MUNGU; tazama, kikapu cha matunda ya wakati wa hari.
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
2
Akaniambia, Amosii, unaona nini? Nikasema, Naona kikapu cha matunda ya wakati wa hari. Ndipo Bwana akaniambia, Mwisho wao umewajilia watu wangu Israeli; sitawapita tena kamwe.
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
3
Tena nyimbo za hekaluni zitakuwa vilio siku ile, asema Bwana MUNGU; mizoga itakuwa mingi; kila mahali wataitupa, wakinyamaza kimya.
“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
4
Lisikieni hili, ninyi mnaopenda kuwameza wahitaji, na kuwakomesha maskini wa nchi,
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
5
mkisema, Mwezi mpya utaondoka lini, tupate kuuza nafaka? Na sabato nayo, tupate kuandika ngano? Mkiipunguza efa na kuiongeza shekeli, mkidanganya watu kwa mizani ya udanganyifu;
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
6
tupate kuwanunua maskini kwa fedha, na wahitaji kwa jozi ya viatu; na kuziuza takataka za ngano.
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
7
Bwana ameapa kwa fahari ya Yakobo, Hakika sitazisahau kamwe kazi zao hata mojawapo.
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
8
Kwa ajili ya hayo, je! Haitatetemeka nchi, na kuomboleza kila mtu akaaye ndani yake? Naam, itainuka yote pia kama huo Mto; nayo itataabika na kupwa tena kama Mto wa Misri.
Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
9
Tena itakuwa siku hiyo, asema Bwana MUNGU, nitalifanya jua litue wakati wa adhuhuri, nami nitaitia nchi giza wakati wa nuru ya mchana.
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
10
Nami nitazigeuza sikukuu zenu kuwa maombolezo, na nyimbo zenu zote kuwa vilio; nami nitatia nguo za magunia katika viuno vyote, na upaa katika kila kichwa; nami nitayafanya haya kuwa kama maombolezo kwa ajili ya mwana wa pekee, na mwisho wake kama siku ya uchungu.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
11
Angalia, siku zinakuja, asema Bwana MUNGU, ambazo nitaleta njaa katika nchi; si njaa ya kukosa chakula, wala kiu ya kukosa maji, bali ya kukosa kuyasikia maneno ya Bwana.
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
12
Nao watatanga-tanga toka bahari hata bahari; na toka upande wa kaskazi hata upande wa mashariki; watapiga mbio, wakienda huko na huko, kulitafuta neno la Bwana, wasilione.
People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
13
Siku hiyo wanawali wazuri na wavulana watazimia kwa kiu.
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
14
Na hao waapao kwa dhambi ya Samaria, na kusema, Kama aishivyo Mungu wako, Ee Dani, na, Kama iishivyo njia ya Beer-sheba, hao nao wataanguka, wasiinuke tena.
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”