Amos 8

1 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed 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 Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?7 Jehovah 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? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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 sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.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 Jehovah, and shall not find it.13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.

Amos 8

More Visions and Messages of Judgment

1 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I sawt a basket of summer fruit.s

2 He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The endt has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins.t

3 The women singing in the templet will wail in that day.”
The sovereign Lord is speaking.
“There will be many corpses littered everywhere!t Be quiet!”

4 Listen to this, you who tramplet the needy,
and do away witht the destitute in the land.

5 You say,
“When will the new moon festivals be over,t so we can sell grain?
When will the Sabbath end,t so we can open up the grain bins?t
We’re eagert to sell less for a higher price,t
and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!ts

6 We’re eager to trade silver for the poor,ts
a pair of sandalst for the needy!
We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”t

7 The Lord confirms this oatht by the arrogance of Jacob:s
“I sweart I will never forget all you have done!t

8 Because of this the eartht will quake,t
and all who live in it will mourn.
The whole eartht will rise like the River Nile,ss
it will surge upwardt and then grow calm,t like the Nile in Egypt.t

9 In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon,
and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.t

10 I will turn your festivals into funerals,t
and all your songs into funeral dirges.
I will make everyone wear funeral clothests
and cause every head to be shaved bald.ts
I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son;t
when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.t

11 Be certain of this,t the time ist coming,” says the sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land –
not a shortage of food or water
but an end to divine revelation!t

12 Peoplet will stagger from sea to sea,t
and from the north around to the east.
They will wander about looking for a revelation fromt the Lord,
but they will not find any.t
13 In that day yourt beautiful young woment and yourt young men will faint from thirst.t

14 These are the ones who now take oathst in the name of the sinful idol goddesst of Samaria.
They vow,t ‘As surely as your gods lives, O Dan,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved ones lives, O Beer Sheba!’
But they will fall down and not get up again.”