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Amos 8 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 8
Vision of the Summer Fruit
Vision of the Summer Fruit
1 Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the LORD said to me:
​
​​“The end has come upon My people Israel;
​​I will not pass by them anymore.
3 ​​And the songs of the temple
​​Shall be wailing in that day,”
​​Says the Lord GOD—
​​“Many dead bodies everywhere,
​​They shall be thrown out in silence.”
​
4 ​​Hear this, you who swallow up[fn] the needy,
​​And make the poor of the land fail,
​
5 Saying:
​
​​“When will the New Moon be past,
​​That we may sell grain?
​​And the Sabbath,
​​That we may trade wheat?
​​Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
​​Falsifying the scales by deceit,
6 ​​That we may buy the poor for silver,
​​And the needy for a pair of sandals—
​​Even sell the bad wheat?”
​
7 ​​The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
​​“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 ​​Shall the land not tremble for this,
​​And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
​​All of it shall swell like the River,[fn]
​​Heave and subside
​​Like the River of Egypt.
​
9 ​​“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord GOD,
​​“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
​​And I will darken the earth in broad daylight;
10 ​​I will turn your feasts into mourning,
​​And all your songs into lamentation;
​​I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
​​And baldness on every head;
​​I will make it like mourning for an only son,
​​And its end like a bitter day.
​
11 ​​“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD,
​​“That I will send a famine on the land,
​​Not a famine of bread,
​​Nor a thirst for water,
​​But of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 ​​They shall wander from sea to sea,
​​And from north to east;
​​They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD,
​​But shall not find it.
​
13 ​​“In that day the fair virgins
​​And strong young men
​​Shall faint from thirst.
14 ​​Those who swear by the sin[fn] of Samaria,
​​Who say,
​‘​As your god lives, O Dan!’
​​And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives!’
​​They shall fall and never rise again.”
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NKJV Footnotes
Or trample on (compare 2:7)
That is, the Nile; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read River; Masoretic Text reads the light.
Or Ashima, a Syrian goddess
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