Amos 8
8
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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Amos 8
8
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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