Bible Chapter Summary
Amos 8 Summary
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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Key verses
Amos 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.”
Amos 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?”
Amos 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:”
Amos 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:”
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