Amos 8
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Amos Has a Vision of a Basket of Ripe Fruit
1The Lord and King gave me a vision. He showed me a basket of ripe fruit. 2“What do you see, Amos?” he asked.
“A basket of ripe fruit,” I replied.
Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel. I will no longer spare them.
3“The time is coming when the songs in the temple will turn to weeping,” announces the Lord and King. “Many, many bodies will be thrown everywhere! So be quiet!”
4Listen to me, you who walk all over needy people.
You crush those who are poor in the land.
5You say,
“When will the New Moon feast be over?
Then we can sell our grain.
When will the Sabbath day come to an end?
Then people can buy our wheat.”
But you measure out less than the right amount.
You raise your prices.
You cheat others by using dishonest scales.
6You buy poor people to make slaves out of them.
You buy those who are in need for a mere pair of sandals.
You even sell the worthless parts of your wheat.
7People of Jacob, you are proud that the Lord is your God. But he has made a promise in his own name. He says, “I will never forget anything Israel has done.
8“The land will tremble because of what will happen.
Everyone who lives in it will mourn.
So the whole land will rise like the Nile River.
It will be stirred up.
Then it will settle back down again
like that river in Egypt.”
9The Lord and King announces,
“At that time I will make the sun go down at noon.
The earth will become dark in the middle of the day.
10I will turn your holy feasts into times for mourning.
I will turn all your songs into weeping.
You will have to wear the clothing of sadness.
You will shave your heads.
I will make you mourn as if your only son had died.
The end of that time will be like a bitter day.”
11The Lord and King announces,
“The days are coming
when I will send hunger through the land.
But people will not be hungry for food.
They will not be thirsty for water.
Instead, they will be hungry
to hear a message from me.
12People will wander from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean.
They will travel from north to east.
They will look for a message from me.
But they will not find it.
13“At that time
“the lovely young women and strong young men
will faint because they are so thirsty.
14Some people make promises in the name of Samaria’s god.
That god has led them astray.
Others say, ‘People of Dan, you can be sure
that your god is alive.’
Still others say, ‘You can be sure
that Beersheba’s god is alive.’
But all these people will fall dead.
They will never get up again.”
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Amos 8
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1This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw a basket of fruit.#8:1. Probably figs. 2He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of fruit.” Then the Lord told me, “This is the end of my people Israel! I won't ignore their sins anymore. 3On that day the Temple songs will become sorrowful wailing. There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Silence!” declares the Lord.
4Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land. 5You who ask, “When will the holy day#8:5. Literally, “new moon”—one of Israel's religious festivals. be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?” 6You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff. 7The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done. 8Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile River in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again.
9On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime. 10I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads.#8:10. Signs of mourning for the dead. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.
11The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. 12People will wander from sea to sea,#8:12. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea. from north to east, running to and fro searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it. 13On that day, even the beautiful girls and healthy young men will collapse from thirst. 14Those who swear by the disgraceful idols#8:14 “disgraceful idols”: literally, “guilt.” of Samaria, who take oaths like, “By the life of your god, Dan,” or “A pilgrimage to the god of Beersheba”—they will fall, and never rise again.
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