Swahili Holy ScripturesBerean Standard Bible

1. 1NMMHili ndilo alilonionesha Bwana Mungu Mwenyezi katika maono: kikapu cha matunda yaliyoiva.BSBBSB: This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
2. 2NMMAkaniuliza, “Amosi, unaona nini?” Nikajibu, “Kikapu chenye matunda yaliyoiva.” Ndipo Mwenyezi Mungu akaniambia, “Wakati umewadia kwa watu wangu Israeli; sitawahurumia zaidi.”BSBBSB: “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
3. 3NMMBwana Mungu Mwenyezi asema, “Katika siku ile, nyimbo katika Hekalu zitageuka kuwa maombolezo. Miili mingi, mingi sana: itatupwa kila mahali! Kimya!”BSBBSB: “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
4. 4NMMLisikieni hili, ninyi ambao mnawagandamiza wahitaji, na kuwaonea maskini wa nchi,BSBBSB: Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
5. 5NMMmkisema, “Ni lini Mwezi Mwandamo utakapopita ili tupate kuuza nafaka, na Sabato itakwisha lini ili tuweze kuuza ngano?” Mkipunguza vipimo, na kuongeza bei, na kudanganya kwa mizani zisizo sawa,BSBBSB: asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
6. 6NMMmkiwanunua maskini kwa fedha, na wahitaji kwa jozi ya viatu, na mkiuza hata takataka za ngano pamoja na ngano.BSBBSB: Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
7. 7NMMMwenyezi Mungu ameapa kwake mwenyewe, aliye Fahari ya Yakobo: “Kamwe sitasahau chochote ambacho wamefanya.BSBBSB: The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
8. 8NMM“Je, nchi haitatetemeka kwa ajili ya hili, nao wote wanaoishi ndani yake hawataomboleza? Nchi yote itainuka kama Mto Naili; itapanda na kushuka kama mto wa Misri.BSBBSB: Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
9. 9NMM“Katika siku ile,” asema Bwana Mungu Mwenyezi, “Nitalifanya jua litue alasiri na kuifanya dunia iwe giza wakati wa mchana mwangavu.BSBBSB: And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
10. 10NMMNitageuza sikukuu zenu za kidini kuwa maombolezo, na kuimba kwenu kote kuwe kilio. Nitawafanya ninyi nyote mvae magunia na kunyoa nywele zenu. Nitaufanya wakati ule uwe kama wa kuombolezea mwana wa pekee, na mwisho wake kama siku ya uchungu.BSBBSB: I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
11. 11NMM“Siku zinakuja,” asema Bwana Mungu Mwenyezi, “wakati nitakapotuma njaa katika nchi yote: si njaa ya chakula wala kiu ya maji, lakini njaa ya kusikia maneno ya Mwenyezi Mungu.BSBBSB: Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
12. 12NMMWanaume watayumbayumba kutoka bahari hadi bahari na kutangatanga kutoka kaskazini mpaka mashariki, wakitafuta neno la Mwenyezi Mungu, lakini hawatalipata.BSBBSB: People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
13. 13NMM“Katika siku ile “wasichana wazuri na wavulana wenye nguvu watazimia kwa sababu ya kiu.BSBBSB: In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
14. 14NMMWale waapao kwa aibu ya Samaria, au kusema, ‘Hakika kama miungu yenu iishivyo, ee Dani,’ au ‘Hakika kama mungu wa Beer-Sheba aishivyo’: wataanguka, wala hawatasimama tena.”BSBBSB: Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”