AMOS 8
1 Thus the Lord GOD shewed 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 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: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause 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 dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, 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? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River 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 for 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 the young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy God, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Cross-references
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- 1Amo 7:1, Amo 7:4, Amo 7:7
- 2Amo 7:8, Lam 4:18, Mic 7:1, Jer 1:11–14, Jer 24:1–3, Ezk 7:6, Ezk 3:7, Ezk 3:10
- 3Amo 6:9–10, Amo 5:23, Jer 9:21–22, Lev 10:3, Amo 5:16, Jer 22:18, Nam 3:3, Jol 1:5
- 4Pro 30:14, Amo 5:11, Psa 14:4, Isa 32:6–7, Psa 12:5, Psa 140:12, Amo 2:6–7, Jas 5:6
- 5Neh 13:15–21, Hos 12:7, Mic 6:10–11, Deu 25:13–16, Lev 19:36, Pro 16:11, Pro 11:1, Exo 20:8–10
- 6Amo 2:6, Jol 3:3, Amo 8:4, Jol 3:6, Neh 5:8, Lev 25:39–42, Neh 5:1–5
- 7Amo 6:8, Hos 9:9, Hos 8:13, Hos 7:2, Psa 10:11, Deu 33:26–29, Jer 31:34, Isa 43:25
- 8Amo 9:5, Jer 46:8, Hos 4:3, Psa 18:7, Isa 5:25, Jer 12:4, Mat 24:30, Psa 114:3–7
- 9Mrk 15:33, Mat 27:45, Luk 23:44, Jer 15:9, Mat 24:29, Mic 3:6, Amo 5:8, Isa 59:9–10
- 10Jer 6:26, Zec 12:10, Job 20:23, Jer 48:37, Ezk 7:18, Luk 7:12–13, Hos 2:11, Isa 15:2–3
- 111Sa 3:1, Psa 74:9, 2Ch 15:3, 1Sa 28:6, Ezk 7:26, Mat 9:36, Mic 3:6, 1Sa 28:15
- 12Rom 11:7–10, 2Ti 3:6–7, Mat 12:30, Pro 14:6, Mat 24:23–26, Dan 12:4, Rom 9:31–33
- 13Hos 2:3, Lam 2:21, Lam 1:18, Deu 32:25, Psa 63:1, Isa 41:17–20, Jer 48:18, Zec 9:17
- 14Amo 5:5, 1Ki 12:28–29, Deu 9:21, Act 9:2, Jer 25:27, Hos 8:5–6, Hos 10:5, 2Ch 36:16
Topics in this chapter
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Amos, Balances, Baldness, Beer-Sheba, Dan, Darkness, Dishonesty, Eclipse, Egypt, Famine, God, Hunger, Israel, Prophecies Concerning, Measure, Money, Moon, Music, New Moon, Nile, Oppression, Poor, Sabbath, Seekers, Servant, Shekel, Shoe, Silver, Summer, Sun, Symbols and Similitudes, Thirst, Vision, War, Wicked (People), Word of God, Worldliness