71 lines
2.1 KiB
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71 lines
2.1 KiB
Markdown
The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning
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# Chapter 8
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1. This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
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2. And he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me,
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"The end has come upon my people Israel;
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I will never again pass by them.
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3. The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,"
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declares the Lord God.
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"So many dead bodies!"
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"They are thrown everywhere!"
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"Silence!"
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4. Hear this, you who trample on the needy
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and bring the poor of the land to an end,
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5. saying, "When will the new moon be over,
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that we may sell grain?
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And the Sabbath,
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that we may offer wheat for sale,
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that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great
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and deal deceitfully with false balances,
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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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and sell the chaff of the 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 deeds.
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8. Shall not the land tremble on this account,
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and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
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and all of it rise like the Nile,
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and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?"
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9. "And on that day,"
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declares the Lord God,
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"I will make the sun go down at noon
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and 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 the mourning for an only son
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and the end of it like a bitter day.
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11. "Behold, the days are coming,"
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declares the Lord God,
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"when I will send a famine on the land--
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not a famine of bread, 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, to seek the word of the LORD,
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but they shall not find it.
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13. "In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
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shall faint for thirst.
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14. Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,
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and say, '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."
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