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