Amos · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Amos 8 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Ούτως έδειξεν εις εμέ Κύριος ο Θεός· και ιδού, κάνιστρον καρπού θερινού.
1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 Και είπε, Τι βλέπεις συ, Αμώς; Και είπα, Κάνιστρον καρπού θερινού. Τότε είπε Κύριος προς εμέ, Ήλθε το τέλος επί τον λαόν μου Ισραήλ· δεν θέλω πλέον παρατρέξει αυτόν του λοιπού.
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 Και τα άσματα του ναού θέλουσιν είσθαι ολολυγμοί εν τη ημέρα εκείνη, λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός· πολλά πτώματα θέλουσιν είσθαι εν παντί τόπω· θέλουσιν εκρίψει αυτά εν σιωπή.
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 Ακούσατε τούτο, οι ροφούντες τους πένητας και οι αφανίζοντες τους πτωχούς του τόπου,
4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5 λέγοντες, Πότε θέλει παρέλθει ο μην, διά να πωλήσωμεν γεννήματα; και το σάββατον, διά να ανοίξωμεν σίτον, σμικρύνοντες το εφά και μεγαλύνοντες τον σίκλον και νοθεύοντες τα ζύγια της απάτης;
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 διά να αγοράσωμεν τους πτωχούς με αργύριον και τον πένητα διά ζεύγος υποδημάτων, και να πωλήσωμεν τα σκύβαλα του σίτου;
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 Ο Κύριος ώμοσεν εις την δόξαν του Ιακώβ, λέγων, Βεβαίως δεν θέλω λησμονήσει ποτέ ουδέν εκ των έργων αυτών.
7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 Η γη δεν θέλει ταραχθή διά τούτο και πενθήσει πας ο κατοικών εν αυτή; και δεν θέλει υπερεκχειλίσει όλη ως ποταμός και δεν θέλει απορριφθή και καταποντισθή ως υπό του ποταμού της Αιγύπτου;
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 Και εν τη ημέρα εκείνη, λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός, θέλω κάμει τον ήλιον να δύση εν καιρώ μεσημβρίας και θέλω συσκοτάσει την γην εν φωτεινή ημέρα.
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 Και θέλω μεταστρέψει τας εορτάς σας εις πένθος και πάντα τα άσματά σας εις θρήνον, και θέλω αναβιβάσει σάκκον επί πάσαν οσφύν και φαλάκρωμα επί πάσαν κεφαλήν, και θέλω καταστήσει αυτόν ως τον πενθούντα υιόν μονογενή και το τέλος αυτού θέλει είσθαι ως ημέρα πικρίας.
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 Ιδού, έρχονται ημέραι, λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός, και θέλω εξαποστείλει πείναν επί την γήν· ουχί πείναν άρτου ουδέ δίψαν ύδατος, αλλ' ακροάσεως των λόγων του Κυρίου.
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 Και θέλουσι περιπλανάσθαι από θαλάσσης έως θαλάσσης, και από βορρά έως ανατολής θέλουσι περιτρέχει, ζητούντες τον λόγον του Κυρίου, και δεν θέλουσιν ευρεί.
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 Εν τη ημέρα εκείνη θέλουσι λιποθυμήσει αι ώραίαι παρθένοι και οι νεανίσκοι υπό δίψης,
13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
14 οι ομνύοντες εις την αμαρτίαν της Σαμαρείας και οι λέγοντες, Ζη ο Θεός σου, Δαν, και, Ζη η οδός της Βηρσαβεέ, και θέλουσι πέσει και δεν θέλουσι σηκωθή πλέον.
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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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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)