Amos 7:15-8:12

English Standard Version

¹⁵^(A)But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ ¹⁶^(B)Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.

“You say, ^(C)‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and ^(D)do not preach against the house of ^(E)Isaac.’

¹⁷^(F)Therefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land ^(G)shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and ^(H)Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

8 ^(I)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. ²And he said, ^(J)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, ^(K)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

^(L)“The end^[a] has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
³^(M)The songs of the temple^[b] ^(N)shall become wailings^[c] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
^(O)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
^(P)“Silence!”

⁴Hear this, ^(Q)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
⁵saying, “When will ^(R)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And ^(S)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make ^(T)the ephah small and the shekel^[d] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
⁶that we may buy the poor for ^(U)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

⁷The Lord has sworn by ^(V)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^(W)I will never forget any of their deeds.
⁸^(X)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(Y)and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about ^(Z)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

⁹“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    ^(AA)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
¹⁰^(AB)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
^(AC)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    ^(AD)and baldness on every head;
^(AE)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹¹“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when ^(AF)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    ^(AG)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹²^(AH)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    ^(AI)but they shall not find it.

Notas al pie

Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
Amos 8:3 Or palace
Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail
Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams