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Amos 8 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:1 - This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:2 - And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me,
“The end[fn] has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:3 - The songs of the temple[fn] shall become wailings[fn] in that day,”
declares the Lord GOD.
“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
“Silence!”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:4 - Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:5 - saying, “When will the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make the ephah small and the shekel[fn] great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:6 - that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:7 - The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:9 - “And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:11 - “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:12 - 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,
but they shall not find it.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:13 - “In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:14 - Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
ESV Footnotes
The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
Or palace
Or The singing women of the palace shall wail
An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
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