8:1 And behold a fowler's basket.
8:2 And he said, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A fowler's basket. And
the Lord said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not pass
by them any more.
8:3 And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, saith the Lord
God: [there shall be] many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence
upon [them].
8:4 Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the
needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
8:5 saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the
sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to
enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?
8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we
will trade in every kind of fruit.
8:7 The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall
ever be forgotten.
8:8 And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not every
one who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river,
and shall descend as the river of Egypt.
8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, [that] the
sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by
day:
8:10 and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on
every head; and I will take them as the mourning of a beloved [friend], and
those with them as a day of grief.
8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send forth a famine
on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of
hearing the word of the Lord.
8:12 And the waters shall be troubled from sea to sea, and from the north to
the east shall [men] run hither and thither, seeking the word of the Lord,
and they shall not find [it].
8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
8:14 they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Thy god, O
Dan, lives; and, Thy god, O Bersabee, lives; and they shall fall, and shall
no more rise again. |
8:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me:
and behold a basket of summer fruit.
8:2 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.
8:3 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.
8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the
land to fail,
8:5 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?
8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
8:7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never
forget any of their works.
8:8 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.
8:9 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:
8:10 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.
8:11 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:
8:12 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.
8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
8:14 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. |