Amos 8
1Thus
2He I said, “ A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, 1 “ The end has come on my people Israel. 2 I will not again pass by them any more. 1
3The 2 “ The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence. 1
4Hear 2 and cause the poor of the land to fail, 2
5saying, ‘ When 2 And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, 2 making the ephah + 8:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel small, and the shekel + 8:5 a normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. large, 2 and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 1
6that 2 and the needy for a pair of sandals, 2 and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’” 1
7The 2 “Surely I will never forget any of their works. 1
8Won’t the 2 and everyone mourn who dwells in it? 1 Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; 2 and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. 1
9It 2 “ that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, 2 and I will darken the earth in the clear day. 1
10I 2 and all your songs into lamentation; 1 and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, 2 and baldness on every head. 1 I will make it like the mourning for an only son, 2 and its end like a bitter day. 1
11Behold 2 “ that I will send a famine in the land, 2 not a famine of bread, 2 nor a thirst for water, 2 but of hearing the LORD’s words. 1
12They 2 and from the north even to the east; 2 they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word, 2 and will not find it. 1
13In 2 and the young men will faint for thirst. 1
14Those who 2 and say, ‘ As your god, Dan, lives,’ 2 and, ‘ As the way of Beersheba lives,’ 2 they will fall, and never rise up again.”