Amos 8

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

12 People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

13 In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.

14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”

1 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence.

4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?

7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.

11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].

13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

1 The Lord GOD showed me a vision, and, behold, there was a basket of fruit.

2 And he said, What seest thou, Amos? And I answered, A basket of fruit. And the LORD said unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not fail them.

3 And the songs of the church shall be turned into weeping in that day, saith the Lord GOD; and there shall be many dead bodies in every place, which shall be carried away privily.

4 Hear this, ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the wretched of the land.

5 Saying, When shall the new moon come to an end, that we may sell corn, and the sabbath, that we may sell corn, and wring the ephah, and increase the sekel, and falsify the scales?

6 That we may bring among us the poor for money, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell chaff for corn?

7 The LORD hath sworn against the pride of Jacob, saying, What matter if I forget these works of theirs for ever?

8 Shall not the land shake for this cause, and all the inhabitants mourn? Yea, it shall overflow altogether, as with a water, and be carried away, and be flooded, as with the river in Egypt.

9 In that day, saith the LORD GOD, will I cause the sun to go down in the midday, and the land to be darkened in the daylight.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations; I will bring sackcloth upon every loin, and baldness upon every head; and I will make them mourning, as one mourneth for an unborn son; and they shall come to a miserable end.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD GOD, that I will send a famine into the land, not a hunger for bread, or a thirst for water, but to hear the word of the LORD,

12 And they shall go to and fro, from sea to sea, from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

13 In that day shall fair maidens and young men pine away for thirst,

14 Who now swear by the curse of Samaria, saying, As thy God liveth in Dan, as the wise woman liveth in Beersheba. For they shall fall, that they may not rise again.