Amos 8
8
A Basket of Summer Fruit
1This is what my Lord Adonai has shown me: See, there was a basket of summer fruit.
2He said: “Amos, what do you see?” “A basket of summer fruit,” I said. Then Adonai said to me: “The end has come to My people Israel. I will not again pass over them.
3The songs of the palace will become howls in that day.” It is a declaration of my Lord Adonai. “So many corpses flung everywhere! Hush!
4Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land
5saying: ‘When will the New Moon be over, so we may sell grain? Or Shabbat, so we may open the wheat market? —Let’s reduce the ephah measure and increase the shekel, cheat with deceitful balances,
6buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals! We’ll even sell the refuse of the grain!’”
7Adonai swore by the Pride of Jacob: “Never will I forget all their deeds!
8Will not the land tremble over this? Will not all who dwell in it mourn? Yes, it will rise up like all the Nile —it will surge and sink again like the Nile of Egypt.”
9“It will be in that day” —declares my Lord Adonai— “I will make the sun go down at noon, yes, I will darken the earth in daylight.
10I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into a dirge. I will pull up sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son— its end a bitter day.”
11“Behold, days are coming” —declares my Lord Adonai— “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 Adonai.
12So people will wander from sea to sea and roam from north to east, searching for the word of Adonai, but they will not find it.
13In that day, the fair virgins and the virile young men will faint from thirst.
14Those swearing by Samaria’s guilt will say, ‘As your gods live, Dan!’ or ‘As the way of Beersheba lives!’ But they will fall, never to rise 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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