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Chapter 8 |
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1 | Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me:
and behold a basket of summer fruit. |
| 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.
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| 3 | And 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. |
| 4 | Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy,
even to make the poor of the land to fail, |
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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? |
| 6 | That we may buy the poor for silver, and the
needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? |
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The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any
of their works. |
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8 | Shall 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. |
| 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: |
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And 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. |
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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: |
| 12 | And 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. |
| 13 | In that day
shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. |
| 14 | They that
swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner
of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. |
