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Amos 8

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

1 This is what the SovereignLordshowed me: a basket of ripe fruit.

2 “What do you see, Amos?” he asked.

“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then theLordsaid to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

3 “In that day,” declares the SovereignLord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy

and do away with the poor of the land,

5 saying,

“When will the New Moon be over

that we may sell grain,

and the Sabbath be ended

that we may market wheat?”—

skimping on the measure,

boosting the price

and cheating with dishonest scales,

6 buying the poor with silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

7 TheLordhas sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.

8 “Will not the land tremble for this,

and all who live in it mourn?

The whole land will rise like the Nile;

it will be stirred up and then sink

like the river of Egypt.

9 “In that day,” declares the SovereignLord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon

and darken the earth in broad daylight.

10 I will turn your religious festivals into mourning

and all your singing into weeping.

I will make all of you wear sackcloth

and shave your heads.

I will make that time like mourning for an only son

and the end of it like a bitter day.

11 “The days are coming,” declares the SovereignLord,

“when I will send a famine through the land—

not a famine of food or a thirst for water,

but a famine of hearing the words of theLord.

12 People will stagger from sea to sea

and wander from north to east,

searching for the word of theLord,

but they will not find it.

13 “In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men

will faint because of thirst.

14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria—

who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’

or, ‘As surely as the godof Beersheba lives’—

they will fall, never to rise again.”

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