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51 lines
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# Chapter 8
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1 The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.
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2 He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”
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I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”
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The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel; I will no longer spare them.
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3 In that day the temple songs will become wailing”—this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”
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4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy
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and do away with the poor of the land,
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5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over
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so we may sell grain,
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and the Sabbath,
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so we may market wheat?
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We can reduce the measure
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while increasing the price
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and cheat with dishonest scales.
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6 We can buy the poor with silver
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and the needy for a pair of sandals
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and even sell the chaff!”
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7 The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:
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I will never forget all their deeds.
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8 Because of this, won’t the land quake
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and all who dwell in it mourn?
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All of it will rise like the Nile;
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it will surge and then subside
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like the Nile in Egypt.
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9 And in that day—
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this is the declaration of the Lord God—
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I will make the sun go down at noon;
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I will darken the land in the daytime.
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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 cause everyone to wear sackcloth
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and every head to be shaved.
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I will make that grief
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like mourning for an only son
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and its outcome like a bitter day.
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11 Look, the days are coming—
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this is the declaration of the Lord God—
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when I will send a famine through the land:
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not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
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but of hearing the words of the Lord.
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12 People will stagger from sea to sea
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and roam from north to east
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seeking the word of the Lord,
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but they will not find it.
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13 In that day the beautiful young women,
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the young men also, will faint from thirst.
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14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria
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and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
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or, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”—
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they will fall, never to rise again. |