Amos 8 -- Old Testament -- Gospel Daily

Amos

Chapter 8

The End Has Come Upon Israel

The LORD shows Amos a basket of summer fruit, telling him the end has come upon Israel and he will not again pass by them. The songs of the temple shall become howlings, and many dead bodies shall be in every place, cast forth with silence. The LORD condemns those who swallow up the needy and make the poor of the land to fail, who manipulate weights and measures to exploit the poor, selling them for silver and a pair of shoes. The LORD swears he will never forget their works. The land shall tremble, rise up wholly as a flood, and be cast out and drowned as by the flood of Egypt. The sun shall go down at noon and the earth be darkened in the clear day. Feasts shall turn to mourning, songs to lamentation, sackcloth shall come upon all loins and baldness upon every head. A famine shall come: not of bread or water, but of hearing the words of the LORD, and people shall wander seeking his word but shall not find it.

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¹Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

²And 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.

³And 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.

⁴Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

⁵Saying, 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?

⁶That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

⁷The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

⁸Shall 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.

⁹And 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:

¹⁰And 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.

¹¹Behold, 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:

¹²And 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.

¹³In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

¹⁴They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.