Amos 8
1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: a basket of summer fruit.
2 He asked, “What do you see, Amos?” I answered, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.”
3 On that day the temple singers will wail, says the Lord GOD. There will be many corpses, thrown everywhere. Silence!
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land.
5 You say, “When will the new moon be over, so we can sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we can open the grain stores, make the ephah smaller, make the shekel larger, and rig the scales with deceit?
6 We will buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff with the wheat.”
7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.”
8 Will not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives in it mourn? It will all rise like the Nile, heave and sink like the Nile of Egypt.
9 On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun set at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will put sackcloth around every waist and baldness on every head. I will make it like mourning for an only son, and its end will be like a bitter day.
11 Look, days are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the LORD.
12 People will wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they will roam about seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
13 On that day, beautiful young women and young men will faint from thirst.
14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As your god lives, Dan!’ and ‘As the road to Beersheba lives!’—they will fall and never rise again.
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