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Amos, Chapter 8

¹ Thus the Lord^aGOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit. ² He said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel. I will^b Lit pass him byspare them no longer. ³ ^c Or They will howl the palace songsThe songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,” declares the Lord GOD. “Many will be the corpses; in every place^d Lit he has thrownthey will cast them forth^e Or hush!in silence.”	2 Jer 24:3 Eze 7:2 Eze 7:3 Eze 7:6 Amo 7:8 3 Amo 5:23 Amo 6:4 Amo 6:5 Amo 8:10 Amo 5:16 Amo 6:8-10
⁴ Hear this, you who^f Or snap attrample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land, ⁵ saying, “When will the new moon^g Lit pass bybe over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market, To make the^h Lit ephahbushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat withⁱ Lit balances of deceptiondishonest scales,	4 Psa 14:4 Pro 30:14 Amo 2:7 Amo 5:11 Amo 5:12 5 Num 28:11 Ki2 4:23 Exo 31:13-17 Neh 13:15 Hos 12:7 Mic 6:11
⁶ So as to buy the helpless for^j Lit silvermoney And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”	6 Amo 2:6
⁷ The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.	7 Amo 4:2 Deu 33:26 Deu 33:29 Psa 68:34 Amo 6:8 Psa 10:11 Hos 7:2 Hos 8:13
⁸ “Because of this will not the land quake And everyone who dwells in it mourn? Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile, And it will be tossed about And subside like the Nile of Egypt.	8 Psa 18:7 Psa 60:2 Isa 5:25 Hos 4:3 Jer 46:7 Jer 46:8 Amo 9:5
⁹ “It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “That I will make the sun go down at noon And make the earth dark in^k Lit a day of lightbroad daylight.	9 Job 5:14 Isa 13:10 Jer 15:9 Mic 3:6 Isa 59:9 Isa 59:10 Amo 4:13 Amo 5:8
¹⁰ “Then I will turn your festivals into mourning And all your songs into^l Or a dirgelamentation; And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.	10 Job 20:23 Amo 5:21 Isa 15:2 Isa 15:3 Jer 48:37 Eze 7:18 Eze 27:31 Jer 6:26 Zec 12:10
¹¹ “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD.	11 Sa1 3:1 Ch2 15:3 Psa 74:9 Eze 7:26 Mic 3:6
¹² “People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it.	12 Eze 20:3 Eze 20:31
¹³ “In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint from thirst.	13 Ljr 1:18 Ljr 2:21 Isa 41:17 Hos 2:3
¹⁴ “As for those who swear by the^m Or Ashimahguilt of Samaria, Who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ They will fall and not rise again.”	14 Hos 8:5 Ki1 12:28 Ki1 12:29 Amo 5:5 Amo 5:2


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