| 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. |
| 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? |
| 7 | The LORD hath
sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their
works. |
| 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: |
| 10 | 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. |
| 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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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. |
