Chapter 8
Amos
Verse 1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Verse 2And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me,“The end has come upon my people Israel;I will never again pass by them.Verse 3The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,”declares the Lord GOD.“So many dead bodies!”“They are thrown everywhere!”“Silence!”Verse 4Hear this, you who trample on the needyand bring the poor of the land to an end,Verse 5saying, “When will the new moon be over,that we may sell grain?And the Sabbath,that we may offer wheat for sale,that we may make the ephah small and the shekel greatand deal deceitfully with false balances,Verse 6that we may buy the poor for silverand the needy for a pair of sandalsand sell the chaff of the wheat?”Verse 7The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.Verse 8Shall not the land tremble on this account,and everyone mourn who dwells in it,and all of it rise like the Nile,and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”Verse 9“And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD,“I will make the sun go down at noonand darken the earth in broad daylight.Verse 10I will turn your feasts into mourningand all your songs into lamentation;I will bring sackcloth on every waistand baldness on every head;I will make it like the mourning for an only sonand the end of it like a bitter day.Verse 11“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD,“when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,but of hearing the words of the LORD.Verse 12They shall wander from sea to sea,and from north to east;they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD,but they shall not find it.Verse 13“In that day the lovely virgins and the young menshall faint for thirst.Verse 14Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’they shall fall, and never rise again.”
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