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1 Luego Dios el Señor me mostró en una visión una canasta llena de fruta madura, y me preguntó:
1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 ―¿Qué ves, Amós? Yo le contesté: ―Una canasta llena de fruta madura. Luego el Señor me dijo: ―Esta fruta representa a mi pueblo Israel, pues ya está maduro para recibir el castigo que merece; de modo que no voy a perdonarlo más.
2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
3 El día que lo castigue, en el templo se entonarán cantos fúnebres en vez de alabanzas alegres. Serán tantos los muertos que habrá cadáveres por todas partes, y serán sacados fuera de la ciudad en silencio, con mucha pesadumbre. Lo ha dicho Dios el Señor.
3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
4 Escuchen, ustedes, comerciantes que explotan a los pobres y ustedes, terratenientes que causan la ruina de los necesitados arrebatándoles su tierra.
4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5 Ustedes que anhelan que el sábado termine y que las fiestas religiosas se acaben, para poder salir y comenzar a estafar de nuevo, usando sus balanzas falseadas y medidas tramposas.
5 saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
6 Ustedes que hasta se atreven a vender los deshechos del trigo. Ustedes que son capaces de comprar como esclavos a los pobres por unas cuantas monedas, o por un par de sandalias.
6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
7 El Señor, que es el orgullo de Israel, ha jurado: «¡Yo no olvidaré jamás sus malas acciones!».
7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 ¡Hasta la tierra se estremecerá de horror al ver las consecuencias de mi castigo, y sus habitantes llorarán de dolor! La tierra subirá como lo hace el río Nilo en el tiempo de la inundación, se agitará y bajará de nuevo.
8 Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
9 En aquel tiempo yo haré que el sol se oculte al mediodía, y oscureceré la tierra cuando todavía sea de día. Lo ha dicho Dios el Señor.
9 It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10 Y yo transformaré sus fiestas alegres en velorios tristes, y sus cantos de gozo en gritos de desesperación. Haré que ese día se pongan ropa de luto y se rapen la cabeza en señal de dolor y vergüenza. Ese día habrá tanto llanto y amargura como cuando se muere un hijo único.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
11 El tiempo viene, dice Dios el Señor, cuando yo enviaré hambre sobre la tierra, pero no hambre de pan o sed de agua, sino de oír y seguir las instrucciones del Señor.
11 Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
12 Los hombres irán de un mar a otro, atravesarán la tierra de norte a sur buscando conocer las instrucciones del Señor, pero no las encontrarán.
12 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.
13 Ese día, las muchachas hermosas y los jóvenes valientes desmayarán de sed.
13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
14 Y los que ofrecen homenajes a los ídolos de Samaria, Dan y Berseba caerán para nunca más levantarse.
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”
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)