| 章 |
| 8:1 |
This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
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| 8:2 |
"What do you see, Amos?" he asked. "A basket of ripe fruit," I answered. Then the LORD said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
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| 8:3 |
"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. "Many, many bodies--flung everywhere! Silence!"
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| 8:4 |
Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
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| 8:5 |
saying, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?"-- skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
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| 8:6 |
buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
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| 8:7 |
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget anything they have done.
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| 8:8 |
"Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.
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| 8:9 |
"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
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| 8:10 |
I will turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
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| 8:11 |
"The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land-- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
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| 8:12 |
Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
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| 8:13 |
"In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.
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| 8:14 |
They who swear by the shame of Samaria, or say, `As surely as your god lives, O Dan, 'or, `As surely as the god of Beersheba lives'-- they will fall, never to rise again."
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