Amos 8
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Thus the Lord YHWH showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
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And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said YHWH
to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
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And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says the Lord YHWH: the
dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
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Hear this, O you that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to
fail,
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saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that
we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing
falsely with balances of deceit;
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that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the
refuse of the wheat?
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YHWH has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their
works.
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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? yea,
it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like
the River of Egypt.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord YHWH, that I will cause the sun
to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and
I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make
it as the mourning for an only son, and its end as a bitter day.
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Behold, the days come, says the Lord YHWH, that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of YHWH.
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And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall
run to and fro to seek the word of YHWH, and shall not find it.
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In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
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They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As your god, O Dan, lives; and, As
the way of Beer-sheba lives; they shall fall, and never rise up again.