AMOS Chapter 8 (GNB)
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8:1
I had another vision from the Sovereign LORD. In it I saw a basket of fruit. |
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8:2
The LORD asked, "Amos, what do you see?" "A basket of
fruit," I answered. The LORD said to me, "The end has come for my
people Israel. I will not change my mind again about punishing them. |
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8:3
On that day the songs in the palace will become cries of mourning. There will
be dead bodies everywhere. They will be cast out in silence." |
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8:4
Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of
the country. |
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8:5
You say to yourselves, "We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over
so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can
start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the
scales to cheat our customers. |
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8:6
We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who
can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy
him as a slave." |
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8:7
The LORD, the God of Israel, has sworn, "I will never forget their evil
deeds. |
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8:8
And so the earth will quake, and everyone in the land will be in distress.
The whole country will be shaken; it will rise and fall
like the Nile River. |
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8:9
The time is coming when I will make the sun go down at noon and the earth
grow dark in daytime. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken. |
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8:10
I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into
cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you
will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter
to the end. |
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8:11
"The time is coming when I will send famine on the land. People will be
hungry, but not for bread; they will be thirsty, but not for water. They will
hunger and thirst for a message from the LORD. I, the Sovereign LORD, have
spoken. |
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8:12
People will wander from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and then on around
from the north to the east. They will look everywhere for a message from the
LORD, but they will not find it. |
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8:13
On that day even healthy young men and women will collapse from thirst. |
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8:14
Those who swear by the idols of Samaria, who say, 'By the god of Dan' or 'By
the god of Beersheba'---those people will fall and not rise again." |
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