Amos 8 - NKJV Bible Online

Amos 8

Vision of the Summer Fruit

Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the Lord said to me:

^a“The end has come upon My people Israel;

^bI will not pass by them anymore.

And ^athe songs of the temple

Shall be wailing in that day,”

Says the Lord God—

“Many dead bodies everywhere,

^bThey shall be thrown out in silence.”

Hear this, you who ¹swallow up the needy,

And make the poor of the land fail,

5 Saying:

“When will the New Moon be past,

That we may sell grain?

And ^athe Sabbath,

That we may ¹trade wheat?

^bMaking the ephah small and the shekel large,

Falsifying the scales by ^cdeceit,

That we may buy the poor for ^asilver,

And the needy for a pair of sandals—

Even sell the bad wheat?”

The Lord has sworn by ^athe pride of Jacob:

“Surely ^bI will never forget any of their works.

^aShall the land not tremble for this,

And everyone mourn who dwells in it?

All of it shall swell like ¹the River,

Heave and subside

^bLike the River of Egypt.

“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,

^a“That I will make the sun go down at noon,

And I will darken the earth in ¹broad daylight;

I will turn your feasts into ^amourning,

^bAnd all your songs into lamentation;

^cI will bring sackcloth on every waist,

And baldness on every head;

I will make it like mourning for an only son,

And its end like a bitter day.

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,

“That I will send a famine on the land,

Not a famine of bread,

Nor a thirst for water,

But ^aof hearing the words of the Lord.

They shall wander from sea to sea,

And from north to east;

They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,

But shall ^anot find it.

“In that day the fair virgins

And strong young men

Shall faint from thirst.

Those who ^aswear by ^bthe ¹sin of Samaria,

Who say,

‘As your god lives, O Dan!’

And, ‘As the way of ^cBeersheba lives!’

They shall fall and never rise again.”

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