Amos 8
8
A vision of summer fruit
1This is what the LORD God showed me: a basket of summer fruit. 2He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the LORD said to me,
“The end has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again forgive them.
3On that day, the people will wail the temple songs,”
says the LORD God;
“there will be many corpses,
thrown about everywhere.#8.3 Heb uncertain
Silence.”
Judgment on oppressors and hypocrites
4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and destroy
the poor of the land, 5saying,
“When will the new moon
be over so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath
so that we may offer wheat for sale,
make the ephah smaller, enlarge the shekel,
and deceive with false balances,
6in order to buy the needy for silver
and the helpless for sandals,
and sell garbage as grain?”
7The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget what they have done.
8Will not the land tremble on this account,
and all who live in it mourn,
as it rises and overflows like the Nile,
and then falls again, like the River of Egypt?#8.8 Heb uncertain
9On that day, says the LORD God,
I will make the sun go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in broad daylight.
10I will turn your feasts into sad affairs
and all your singing into a funeral song;
I will make people wear mourning clothes
and shave their heads;
I will make it like the loss of an only child,
and the end of it like a bitter day.
11The days are surely coming, says the LORD God,
when I will send hunger and thirst on the land;
neither a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the LORD ’s words.
12They will wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they will roam all around, seeking the LORD’s word,
but they won’t find it.
13On that day the beautiful young women and the young men
will faint with thirst.
14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria,
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”—
even they will fall and never rise again.
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Amos 8
8
The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning
1 # ch. 7:1 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2And he said, #ch. 7:8 “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, #[Jer. 24:1; Mic. 7:1] “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,
#
Lam. 4:18
“The end#8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
3 # [ch. 5:23] The songs of the temple#8:3 Or palace #[Jer. 47:2] shall become wailings#8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
# [ch. 6:9] “So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
# [ch. 6:10; Jer. 16:4, 6] “Silence!”
4Hear this, #[Ps. 14:4]you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5saying, “When will #See Num. 28:11 the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And #[Neh. 13:15, 16] the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make #Ezek. 45:10; Mic. 6:10, 11; See Hos. 12:7the ephah small and the shekel#8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6that we may buy the poor for #ch. 2:6silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
7The Lord has sworn by #ch. 6:8 the pride of Jacob:
“Surely #Hos. 8:13; 9:9I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 # [Hos. 4:3] Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
# ch. 9:5 and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about #[Zech. 10:11]and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
9“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
#
Jer. 15:9; Mic. 3:6; Matt. 24:29; [ch. 4:13; 5:8] “I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 # [Jer. 7:34; 16:9; Hos. 2:11] I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
#
Isa. 3:24 I will bring sackcloth on every waist
#
Isa. 3:24 and baldness on every head;
#
Jer. 6:26; Zech. 12:10 I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
11“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when #[Isa. 8:20, 21] I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
# [Ps. 74:9; Prov. 29:18; Mic. 3:7] but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 # [See ver. 11 above] They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
# [ch. 4:8] but they shall not find it.
13 #
Isa. 51:20 “In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall #[Jonah 4:8]faint for thirst.
14Those who swear by #Deut. 9:21; 1 Kgs. 12:29, 30; Hos. 10:8 the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As #[Acts 9:2] the Way of #ch. 5:5Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
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