Amos · Majority Standard Bible
Amos 8 Majority Standard Bible
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1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
5 saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
8 Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
9 It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
11 Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
12 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.
13 In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”
Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Amos 7:1; Amos 7:7; Amos 7:4
- 2 Amos 7:8; Lamentations 4:18; Micah 7:1; Jeremiah 1:11–14; Jeremiah 24:1–3
- 3 Amos 5:23; Amos 6:9–10; Jeremiah 9:21–22; Amos 5:16; Leviticus 10:3
- 4 Proverbs 30:14; Amos 5:11; Psalm 14:4; Isaiah 32:6–7; Psalm 12:5
- 5 Nehemiah 13:15–21; Micah 6:10–11; Hosea 12:7; Deuteronomy 25:13–16; Leviticus 19:36
- 6 Amos 2:6; Joel 3:6; Joel 3:3; Leviticus 25:39–42; Amos 8:4
- 7 Amos 6:8; Hosea 9:9; Hosea 8:13; Hosea 7:2; Psalm 47:4
- 8 Amos 9:5; Jeremiah 46:8; Hosea 4:3; Psalm 18:7; Isaiah 5:25
- 9 Mark 15:33; Matthew 27:45; Jeremiah 15:9; Luke 23:44; Micah 3:6
- 10 Jeremiah 6:26; Zechariah 12:10; Job 20:23; Jeremiah 48:37; Ezekiel 7:18
- 11 1 Samuel 3:1; Psalm 74:9; 2 Chronicles 15:3; 1 Samuel 28:6; Ezekiel 7:26
- 12 Romans 11:7–10; 2 Timothy 3:6–7; Proverbs 14:6; Matthew 12:30; Daniel 12:4
- 13 Hosea 2:3; Lamentations 2:21; Lamentations 1:18; Jeremiah 48:18; Zechariah 9:17
- 14 Amos 5:5; 1 Kings 12:28–29; Deuteronomy 9:21; Acts 9:2; Hosea 13:2
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Those, moreover, who said, "In that day, saith the Lord, the sun shall go down at noon, and there shall be darkness over the earth in the clear day; and I will turn your feast days into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation," plainly announced that obscuration of the sun which at the time of His crucifixion took place …
… a soul's food, this its ornament, this its security; even as not to hear is famine and wasting; for "I will give them," saith He, "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord." What then can be more wretched?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The Prophet Amos answers, And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon (for there was darkness from the sixth hour;) and the light shall grow dark over the earth in the day." What sort of season is this, O Prophet, and what sort of day?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)