Amos · Catholic Public Domain Version
Amos 8 Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 These things the Lord has revealed to me. And behold, a hook to draw down fruit.
1 ASÍ me ha mostrado Jehová: y he aquí un canastillo de fruta de verano.
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.”
2 Y dijo: ¿Qué ves, Amós? Y dije: Un canastillo de fruta de verano. Y díjome Jehová: Venido ha el fin sobre mi pueblo Israel; no le pasaré más.
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.
3 Y los cantores del templo aullarán en aquel día, dice el Señor Jehová; muchos serán los cuerpos muertos; en todo lugar echados serán en silencio.
4 Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.
4 Oid esto, los que tragáis á los menesterosos, y arruináis los pobres de la tierra,
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,
5 Diciendo: ¿Cuándo pasará el mes, y venderemos el trigo; y la semana, y abriremos [los alfolíes] del pan, y achicaremos la medida, y engrandeceremos el precio, y falsearemos el peso engañoso;
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?”
6 Para comprar los pobres por dinero, y los necesitados por un par de zapatos, y venderemos las aechaduras del trigo?
7 The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works.
7 Jehová juró por la gloria de Jacob: No me olvidaré para siempre de todas sus obras.
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?
8 ¿No se ha de estremecer la tierra sobre esto? ¿y todo habitador de ella no llorará? y subirá toda como un río, y será arrojada, y hundiráse como el río de Egipto.
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.
9 Y acaecerá en aquel día, dice el Señor Jehová, que haré se ponga el sol al mediodía, y la tierra cubriré de tinieblas en el día claro.
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.
10 Y tornaré vuestras fiestas en lloro, y todos vuestros cantares en endechas; y haré poner saco sobre todos lomos, y peladura sobre toda cabeza; y tornaréla como en llanto de unigénito, y su postrimería como día amargo.
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.
11 He aquí vienen días, dice el Señor Jehová, en los cuales enviaré hambre á la tierra, no hambre de pan, ni sed de agua, sino de oir palabra de Jehová.
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.
12 E irán errantes de mar á mar: desde el norte hasta el oriente discurrirán buscando palabra de Jehová, y no la hallarán.
13 In that day, beautiful virgins, and young men, will fail because of thirst.
13 En aquel tiempo las doncellas hermosas y los mancebos desmayarán de sed.
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.
14 Los que juran por el pecado de Samaria, y dicen, Vive tu Dios de Dan: y, Vive el camino de Beer-seba: caerán, y nunca más se levantarán.
Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Amos 7:1; Amos 7:7; Amos 7:4
- 2 Amos 7:8; Lamentations 4:18; Micah 7:1; Jeremiah 1:11–14; Jeremiah 24:1–3
- 3 Amos 5:23; Amos 6:9–10; Jeremiah 9:21–22; Amos 5:16; Leviticus 10:3
- 4 Proverbs 30:14; Amos 5:11; Psalm 14:4; Isaiah 32:6–7; Psalm 12:5
- 5 Nehemiah 13:15–21; Micah 6:10–11; Hosea 12:7; Deuteronomy 25:13–16; Leviticus 19:36
- 6 Amos 2:6; Joel 3:6; Joel 3:3; Leviticus 25:39–42; Amos 8:4
- 7 Amos 6:8; Hosea 9:9; Hosea 8:13; Hosea 7:2; Psalm 47:4
- 8 Amos 9:5; Jeremiah 46:8; Hosea 4:3; Psalm 18:7; Isaiah 5:25
- 9 Mark 15:33; Matthew 27:45; Jeremiah 15:9; Luke 23:44; Micah 3:6
- 10 Jeremiah 6:26; Zechariah 12:10; Job 20:23; Jeremiah 48:37; Ezekiel 7:18
- 11 1 Samuel 3:1; Psalm 74:9; 2 Chronicles 15:3; 1 Samuel 28:6; Ezekiel 7:26
- 12 Romans 11:7–10; 2 Timothy 3:6–7; Proverbs 14:6; Matthew 12:30; Daniel 12:4
- 13 Hosea 2:3; Lamentations 2:21; Lamentations 1:18; Jeremiah 48:18; Zechariah 9:17
- 14 Amos 5:5; 1 Kings 12:28–29; Deuteronomy 9:21; Acts 9:2; Hosea 13:2
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Those, moreover, who said, "In that day, saith the Lord, the sun shall go down at noon, and there shall be darkness over the earth in the clear day; and I will turn your feast days into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation," plainly announced that obscuration of the sun which at the time of His crucifixion took place …
… a soul's food, this its ornament, this its security; even as not to hear is famine and wasting; for "I will give them," saith He, "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord." What then can be more wretched?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The Prophet Amos answers, And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon (for there was darkness from the sixth hour;) and the light shall grow dark over the earth in the day." What sort of season is this, O Prophet, and what sort of day?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)