Amos 8
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.