Amos

The End Has Come: Economic Oppression and Spiritual Famine

Chapter 8

¹ In this way my Lord the LORD showed me, and behold, a summer basket. ² He said, "What do you see, Amos?" He said, "A basket of summer fruit." The LORD said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will no longer spare them again." ³ And the songs of the temple shall wail on that day—utterance of the Lord GOD. Many corpses—he has thrown in every place. He. ⁴ Hear this, you who pant after the poor and seek to destroy the poor of the land. ⁵ saying, "When will the new moon pass so we can shatter grain, and the sabbath pass so we can open the wheat, to make the ephah small and enlarge the shekel, and pervert balances of deceit?" ⁶ We will buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; we will trample the refuse of grain. ⁷ The LORD has sworn by the hubris of Jacob, "I will never forget all their deeds." ⁸ Will not the earth tremble and mourn, every inhabitant in it, and rise up like a river all gone and be driven about and sink down like the Nile of Egypt? ⁹ And it will be on that day, says the Lord GOD, that I will bring the sun at noon and make darkness on the land on a day of light. ¹⁰ And I will turn your feasts to mourning and all your songs to lamentation, and I will bring sackcloth up on all loins and baldness on all heads, and I will make it like the mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day. ¹¹ Behold, days are coming, says the LORD, and I will send a famine in the land—not a famine of bread nor thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. ¹² And they will wander from sea to sea and from north to east. They will rove to seek the word of the LORD, and they will not find it. ¹³ On that day the beautiful virgins and the young warriors will faint from thirst. ¹⁴ Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, "Life to your god Dan! And life to the way of Beersheba!"—they will fall and not rise again.

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