Amós 8

Vision of the Summer Fruit

1 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And He said, "Amos, what do you see?"

So I said, "A basket of summer fruit."

Then the Lord said to me:

*Ezek. 7:2"The end has come upon My people Israel;

*Amos 7:8I will not pass by them anymore.

3 And *Amos 5:23the songs of the temple

Shall be wailing in that day,"

Says the Lord God—

"Many dead bodies everywhere,

*Amos 6:9, 10They shall be thrown out in silence."

4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy,

And make the poor of the land fail,

5 Saying:

"When will the New Moon be past,

That we may sell grain?

And *Ex. 31:13–17; Neh. 13:15the Sabbath,

That we may trade wheat?

*Mic. 6:10, 11Making the ephah small and the shekel large,

Falsifying the scales by *Lev. 19:35, 36; Deut. 25:13–15deceit,

6 That we may buy the poor for *Amos 2:6silver,

And the needy for a pair of sandals—

Even sell the bad wheat?"

7 The Lord has sworn by *Deut. 33:26, 29; Ps. 68:34; Amos 6:8the pride of Jacob:

"Surely *Ps. 10:11; Hos. 7:2; 8:13I will never forget any of their works.

8 *Hos. 4:3Shall the land not tremble for this,

And everyone mourn who dwells in it?

All of it shall swell like the River,

Heave and subside

*Jer. 46:7, 8; Amos 9:5Like the River of Egypt.

9 "And it shall come to pass in that day," says the Lord God,

*Job 5:14; Is. 13:10; 59:9, 10; Jer. 15:9; (Mic. 3:6); Matt. 27:45; Mark 15:32; Luke 23:44"That I will make the sun go down at noon,

And I will darken the earth in broad daylight;

10 I will turn your feasts into *Lam. 5:15; Ezek. 7:18mourning,

*Is. 15:2, 3; Jer. 48:37; Ezek. 27:31And all your songs into lamentation;

*Jer. 6:26; (Zech. 12:10)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,

And baldness on every head;

I will make it like mourning for an only son,

And its end like a bitter day.

11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord God,

"That I will send a famine on the land,

Not a famine of bread,

Nor a thirst for water,

But *1 Sam. 3:1; 2 Chr. 15:3; Ps. 74:9; Ezek. 7:26; Mic. 3:6of hearing the words of the Lord.

12 They shall wander from sea to sea,

And from north to east;

They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,

But shall *Hos. 5:6not find it.

13 "In that day the fair virgins

And strong young men

Shall faint from thirst.

14 Those who *Hos. 4:15swear by *Deut. 9:21the sin of Samaria,

Who say,

‘As your god lives, O Dan!’

And, ‘As the way of *Amos 5:5Beersheba lives!’

They shall fall and never rise again."