1 This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw a basket of fruit. 2 He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of fruit.” Then the Lord told me, “This is the end of my people Israel! I won't ignore their sins anymore. 3 On that day the Temple songs will become sorrowful wailing. There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Silence!” declares the Lord. 4 Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land. 5 You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?” 6 You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff. 7 The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done. 8 Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile River in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again. 9 On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime. 10 I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day. 11 The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. 12 People will wander from sea to sea, from north to east, running to and fro searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it. 13 On that day, even the beautiful girls and healthy young men will collapse from thirst. 14 Those who swear by the disgraceful idols of Samaria, who take oaths like, “By the life of your god, Dan,” or “A pilgrimage to the god of Beersheba”—they will fall, and never rise again.
Amós · Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
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Referencias cruzadas (14)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Amós 7:1; Amós 7:7; Amós 7:4
- 2 Amós 7:8; Lamentaciones 4:18; Miqueas 7:1; Jeremías 1:11–14; Jeremías 24:1–3
- 3 Amós 5:23; Amós 6:9–10; Jeremías 9:21–22; Amós 5:16; Levítico 10:3
- 4 Proverbios 30:14; Amós 5:11; Salmo 14:4; Isaías 32:6–7; Salmo 12:5
- 5 Nehemías 13:15–21; Miqueas 6:10–11; Oseas 12:7; Deuteronomio 25:13–16; Levítico 19:36
- 6 Amós 2:6; Joel 3:6; Joel 3:3; Levítico 25:39–42; Amós 8:4
- 7 Amós 6:8; Oseas 9:9; Oseas 8:13; Oseas 7:2; Salmo 47:4
- 8 Amós 9:5; Jeremías 46:8; Oseas 4:3; Salmo 18:7; Isaías 5:25
- 9 Marcos 15:33; Mateo 27:45; Jeremías 15:9; Lucas 23:44; Miqueas 3:6
- 10 Jeremías 6:26; Zacarías 12:10; Job 20:23; Jeremías 48:37; Ezequiel 7:18
- 11 1 Samuel 3:1; Salmo 74:9; 2 Crónicas 15:3; 1 Samuel 28:6; Ezequiel 7:26
- 12 Romanos 11:7–10; 2 Timoteo 3:6–7; Proverbios 14:6; Mateo 12:30; Daniel 12:4
- 13 Oseas 2:3; Lamentaciones 2:21; Lamentaciones 1:18; Jeremías 48:18; Zacarías 9:17
- 14 Amós 5:5; 1 Reyes 12:28–29; Deuteronomio 9:21; Hechos 9:2; Oseas 13:2
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
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?
Leer en contexto · 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?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)