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.” # 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 # 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 # 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: # = 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 # Lit every loin 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.
11Hear this! 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 # LXX reads god # 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
You Who Give Little and Take Much
1My Master God showed me this vision: A bowl of fresh fruit.
2He said, “What do you see, Amos?”
I said, “A bowl of fresh, ripe fruit.”
God said, “Right. So, I’m calling it quits with my people Israel. I’m no longer acting as if everything is just fine.”
3“The royal singers will wail when it happens.”
My Master God said so.
“Corpses will be strewn here, there, and everywhere.
Hush!”
4-6Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak,
you who treat poor people as less than nothing,
Who say, “When’s my next paycheck coming
so I can go out and live it up?
How long till the weekend
when I can go out and have a good time?”
Who give little and take much,
and never do an honest day’s work.
You exploit the poor, using them—
and then, when they’re used up, you discard them.
7-8 God swears against the arrogance of Jacob:
“I’m keeping track of their every last sin.”
God’s oath will shake earth’s foundations,
dissolve the whole world into tears.
God’s oath will sweep in like a river that rises,
flooding houses and lands,
And then recedes,
leaving behind a sea of mud.
9-10“On Judgment Day, watch out!”
These are the words of God, my Master.
“I’ll turn off the sun at noon.
In the middle of the day the earth will go black.
I’ll turn your parties into funerals
and make every song you sing a dirge.
Everyone will walk around in rags,
with sunken eyes and bald heads.
Think of the worst that could happen
—your only son, say, murdered.
That’s a hint of Judgment Day
—that and much more.
11-12“Oh yes, Judgment Day is coming!”
These are the words of my Master God.
“I’ll send a famine through the whole country.
It won’t be food or water that’s lacking, but my Word.
People will drift from one end of the country to the other,
roam to the north, wander to the east.
They’ll go anywhere, listen to anyone,
hoping to hear God’s Word—but they won’t hear it.
13-14“On Judgment Day,
lovely young girls will faint of Word-thirst,
robust young men will faint of God-thirst,
Along with those who take oaths at the Samaria Sin-and-Sex Center,
saying, ‘As the lord god of Dan is my witness!’
and ‘The lady goddess of Beer-sheba bless you!’
Their lives will fall to pieces.
They’ll never put it together again.”
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