The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Amos 08
1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then Yahweh said to me,
“The end has come on my people Israel.
I willnot againpass by themanymore.
3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in
that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“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, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5 saying, ‘When will the new moon be
gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may market
wheat, making the ephah† small, and the
shekel‡ large, and dealing falsely with balances of
deceit;
6 that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
and sell the sweepings with the
wheat?’ ”
7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
“Surely I will never forget any of their
works.
8 Won’t the land tremble for this,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it?
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
and it will be stirredup and sink again,
like the River of Egypt.
9 It will happen in that day,” says the Lord
Yahweh, “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,
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
Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
12 They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek
Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.
13 In that day the beautiful virgins
and the young men willfaintfor thirst.
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’
and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’
they willfall, and never rise up again.”