AM-8:1  Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a

basket of summer


fruit.


AM-8:2  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.


AM-8:3  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.


AM-8:4  Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make

the poor of


the land to fail,


AM-8:5  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?


AM-8:6  That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a

pair of


shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?


AM-8:7  The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I

will never


forget any of their works.


AM-8:8  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.


AM-8:9  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:


AM-8:10  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.


AM-8:11  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:


AM-8:12  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].


AM-8:13  In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint

for thirst.


AM-8:14  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.




 


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