Amos 8
NASB
Amos 8:1
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Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, {there was} a basket of summer fruit.
Amos 8:2
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He said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel. I will spare them no longer.
Amos 8:3
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~"The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "Many {will be} the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence."
Amos 8:4
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Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,
Amos 8:5
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saying, "When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat {market,} To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales,
Amos 8:6
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So as to buy the helpless for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And {that} we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"
Amos 8:7
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The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.
Amos 8:8
Amos 8:9
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"It will come about in that day," declares the Lord GOD, "That I will make the sun go down at noon And make the earth dark in broad daylight.
Amos 8:10
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"Then I will turn your festivals into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring sackcloth on everyone's loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like {a time of} mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
Amos 8:11
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"Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD.
Amos 8:12
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"People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find {it.}
Amos 8:13
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"In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint from thirst.
Amos 8:14
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