Amos 8
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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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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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