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Fel hyn y dangosodd yr Arglwydd i mi; ac wele gawellaid o ffrwythydd haf. Ac efe a ddywedodd, Beth a weli di, Amos? A mi a ddywedais, Cawellaid o ffrwythydd haf. Yna y dywedodd yr Arglwydd wrthyf, Daeth y diwedd ar fy mhobl Israel; nid af heibio iddynt mwyach. Caniadau y deml hefyd a droir yn udo ar y dydd hwnnw, medd yr Arglwydd Dduw: llawer o gelaneddau a fydd ym mhob lle; bwrir hwynt allan yn ddistaw.

Gwrandewch hyn, y sawl ydych yn llyncu yr anghenog, i ddifa tlodion y tir, Gan ddywedyd, Pa bryd yr â y mis heibio, fel y gwerthom ŷd? a’r Saboth, fel y dygom allan y gwenith, gan brinhau yr effa, a helaethu y sicl, ac anghyfiawnu y cloriannau trwy dwyll? I brynu y tlawd er arian, a’r anghenus er pâr o esgidiau, ac i werthu gwehilion y gwenith? Tyngodd yr Arglwydd i ragorfraint Jacob, Diau nid anghofiaf byth yr un o’u gweithredoedd hwynt. Oni chrŷn y ddaear am hyn? ac oni alara ei holl breswylwyr? cyfyd hefyd i gyd fel llif; a bwrir hi ymaith, a hi a foddir, megis gan afon yr Aifft. A’r dydd hwnnw, medd yr Arglwydd Dduw, y gwnaf i’r haul fachludo hanner dydd, a thywyllaf y ddaear liw dydd golau. 10 Troaf hefyd eich gwyliau yn alar, a’ch holl ganiadau yn oernad: dygaf sachliain ar yr holl lwynau, a moelni ar bob pen: a mi a’i gwnaf fel galar am unmab, a’i ddiwedd fel dydd chwerw.

11 Wele, y mae y dyddiau yn dyfod, medd yr Arglwydd Dduw, yr anfonaf newyn i’r tir; nid newyn am fara, ac nid syched am ddwfr, ond am wrando geiriau yr Arglwydd. 12 A hwy a grwydrant o fôr i fôr, ac a wibiant o’r gogledd hyd y dwyrain, i geisio gair yr Arglwydd, ac nis cânt. 13 Y diwrnod hwnnw y gwyryfon glân a’r meibion ieuainc a ddiffoddant o syched. 14 Y rhai a dyngant i bechod Samaria, ac a ddywedant, Byw yw dy dduw di, O Dan; a, Byw yw ffordd Beerseba; hwy a syrthiant, ac ni chodant mwy.

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