Amos 8

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Haec ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce canistrum pomorum.	1 These things the Lord has revealed to me. And behold, a hook to draw down fruit.
2 Et dixit: “ Quid tu vides, Amos? ”. Et dixi: “ Canistrum pomorum ”. Et dixit Dominus ad me: “ Venit finis super populum meum Israel; non adiciam ultra ignoscere ei.	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.”
3 Et lugent cantatrices palatii in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus; multa erunt cadavera, in omni loco proicientur: silentium.	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.
4 Audite hoc, qui conteritis pauperem et deficere facitis egenos terrae,	4 Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.
5 dicentes: “Quando transibit neomenia, et venumdabimus merces? Et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum, ut imminuamus mensuram et augeamus siclum et supponamus stateras dolosas,	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,
6 ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperem pro calceamentis et quisquilias frumenti vendamus?””.	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?”
7 Iuravit Dominus in superbia Iacob: “ Non obliviscar in perpetuum omnia opera eorum.	7 The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works.
8 Numquid super isto non commovebitur terra, et lugebit omnis habitator eius, et ascendet quasi fluvius universa, fervebit et decrescet quasi flumen Aegypti?	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?
9 Et erit: in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus, occidere faciam solem in meridie et tenebrescere faciam terram in die luminis	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.
10 et convertam festivitates vestras in luctum et omnia cantica vestra in planctum; et inducam super omnes lumbos saccum et super omne caput calvitium; et ponam eam quasi luctum unigeniti et novissima eius quasi diem amarum.	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.
11 Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et mittam famem in terram; non famem panis neque sitim aquae, sed audiendi verbum Domini ”.	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.
12 Et fugient a mari usque ad mare; et ab aquilone usque ad orientem circuibunt, quaerentes verbum Domini, et non invenient.	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.
13 In die illa deficient virgines pulchrae et adulescentes in siti.	13 In that day, beautiful virgins, and young men, will fail because of thirst.
14 Qui iurant in delicto Samariae et dicunt: “ Vivit Deus tuus, Dan! ” et “ Vivit via, Bersabee! ”, et cadent et non resurgent ultra.	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.