Amos 8

1 Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. ‡ Amo 7:1Amo 7:4Amo 7:7

2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” ‡ Amo 7:8Lam 4:18Jer 1:11-14Mic 7:12Sa 16:1-2Deu 26:1-4Ezk 12:23Ezk 3:10 +14

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the LORD said to me,

“The end has come on my people Israel.

I will not again pass by them any more.

3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD. ‡ Amo 5:23Amo 6:9-10Jer 9:21-22Amo 5:16Lev 10:3Amo 4:10Amo 8:10Hos 10:5-6 +8

“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, ‡ Pro 30:14Amo 5:11Psa 14:4Isa 32:6-7Psa 12:5Amo 2:6-7Psa 140:12Jas 5:6 +8

and cause the poor of the land to fail,

5 saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? ‡ Neh 13:15-21Hos 12:7Mic 6:10-11Deu 25:13-16Lev 19:36Exo 20:8-10Isa 1:13Pro 11:1 +11

And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,

making the ephah ¹ small, and the shekel ² large,

and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

6 that we may buy the poor for silver, ‡ Amo 2:6Amo 8:4Jol 3:3Jol 3:6Lev 25:39-42Neh 5:1-5Neh 5:8

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, ‡ Amo 6:8Hos 9:9Hos 8:13Hos 7:2Psa 10:11Deu 33:26-29Isa 43:25Jer 17:1 +6

“Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8 Won’t the land tremble for this, ‡ Amo 9:5Hos 4:3Jer 46:8Psa 18:7Isa 5:25Amo 8:10Dan 9:26Hag 2:6-7 +11

and everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;

and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

9 It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD, ‡ Mrk 15:33Mat 27:45Jer 15:9Luk 23:44Mat 24:29Mic 3:6Amo 5:8Isa 59:9-10 +7

“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,

and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, ‡ Jer 6:26Zec 12:10Ezk 7:18Jer 48:37Job 20:23Hos 2:11Isa 15:2-3Luk 7:12-13 +12

and all your songs into lamentation;

and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,

and baldness on every head.

I will make it like the mourning for an only son,

and its end like a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days come,” says the Lord GOD, ‡ 1Sa 3:1Psa 74:92Ch 15:31Sa 28:6Ezk 7:26Mat 9:36Mic 3:61Sa 28:15 +2

“that I will send a famine in the land,

not a famine of bread,

nor a thirst for water,

but of hearing the LORD’s words.

12 They will wander from sea to sea, ‡ Rom 11:7-102Ti 3:6-7Mat 12:30Pro 14:6Dan 12:4Mat 24:23-26Rom 9:31-33Ezk 20:31 +2

and from the north even to the east;

they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word,

and will not find it.

13 In that day the beautiful virgins ‡ Hos 2:3Lam 1:18Lam 2:21Deu 32:25Isa 40:30Isa 41:17-20Jer 48:18Lam 2:10 +3

and the young men will faint for thirst.

14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, ‡ Amo 5:51Ki 12:28-29Deu 9:21Act 9:21Ki 12:321Ki 13:22-341Ki 14:161Ki 16:24 +20

and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’

and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’

they will fall, and never rise up again.”