Amos 8
New International Version - Amos 8 << | >> 123456789 8:1 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. 8:2 'What do you see, Amos?' he asked. 'A basket of ripe fruit,' I answered. Then the Lord said to me, 'The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. 8:3 'In that day,' declares the Sovereign Lord , 'the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. [1] Many, many bodies-flung everywhere! Silence!' 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land, 8:5 saying, 'When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?'- skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales, 8:6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat. 8:7 The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: 'I will never forget anything they have done. 8:8 'Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt. 8:9 'In that day,' declares the Sovereign Lord , 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. 8:10 I will turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. 8:11 'The days are coming,' declares the Sovereign Lord , 'when I will send a famine through the land- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. 8:12 Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord , but they will not find it. 8:13 'In that day 'the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst. 8:14 They who swear by the shame [2] of Samaria, or say, 'As surely as your god lives, O Dan,' or, 'As surely as the god [3] of Beersheba lives'- they will fall, never to rise again.'