Amos 8
8
1 Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the LORD said to me,
“The end has come on my people Israel.
I will not again pass by them any more.
3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD.
“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,
making the ephah#8:5 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel small, and the shekel#8:5 a normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. large,
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
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 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8Won’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 It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD,
“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
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 Behold, the days come,” says the Lord GOD,
“that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the LORD’s words.
12 They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word,
and will not find it.
13 In that day the beautiful virgins
and the young men will faint for thirst.
14Those 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.”
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Amos 8
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Fourth Vision: A Basket of Summer Fruit
1The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit. 2He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” #Am 7:8
I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”#8:2 In Hb the word for summer fruit sounds like the word for end.#Jr 24:3
The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel;#Ezk 7:2–3,6 I will no longer spare them.#Am 7:8 3In that day the temple#8:3 Or palace songs#Am 5:23; 6:4–5 will become wailing”#Am 5:16 — this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!#Is 34:3; Jr 33:5; Nah 3:3 Silence!” #Am 6:10
4Hear this, you who trample on the needy#Am 2:7; 5:11–12
and do away with the poor of the land,#Is 10:2
5asking, “When will the New Moon be over
so we may sell grain,#Nm 28:11; 2Kg 4:23
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?#Ex 31:13–17
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price#8:5 Lit reduce the ephah and make the shekel great
and cheat with dishonest scales.#Dt 25:13–15; Pr 20:23; Hs 12:7
6We can buy the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals#Am 2:6
and even sell the chaff!”
7The Lord has sworn#Am 4:2; 6:8 by the Pride of Jacob:#8:7 = the Lord or the promised land#Dt 33:26,29; Ps 47:4
I will never forget all their deeds.#Ps 10:11; Hs 7:2; 8:13
8Because of this, won’t the land quake#Ps 18:7; 60:2; Is 5:25; Am 1:1
and all who dwell in it mourn?#Hs 4:3
All of it will rise like the Nile;#Jr 46:7–8
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.#Am 9:5
9And in that day —
this is the declaration of the Lord God —
I will make the sun go down at noon;#Is 13:10; Ezk 32:7; Jl 2:10,31
I will darken the land in the daytime.#Is 59:9–10; Am 4:13; 5:8; Mt 27:45
10I will turn your feasts into mourning#Jb 20:23; Am 5:21
and all your songs into lamentation;#Lm 5:15; Hs 2:11; Jms 4:9
I will cause everyone#8:10 Lit every waist to wear sackcloth#Ezk 7:18
and every head to be shaved.#Is 22:12; Jr 48:37; Ezk 7:18
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son#Zch 12:10–14
and its outcome like a bitter day.
11Look, the days are coming —
this is the declaration of the Lord God —
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.#Mc 3:6–7
12People will stagger from sea to sea
and roam from north to east
seeking the word of the Lord,#Ezk 20:3,31
but they will not find it.
13In that day the beautiful young women,#Lm 1:18; 2:21
the young men also, will faint from thirst.#Is 41:17; Hs 2:3
14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria#Hs 8:5
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”#1Kg 12:28–29
or, “As the way#8:14 LXX reads god#8:14 Or power of Beer-sheba lives”#Am 5:5 —
they will fall, never to rise again.#Am 5:2; Jr 25:27
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