Amos 8
The Basket of Summer
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Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer
fruit.
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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I
said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of
Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
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And the songs of the temple shall be
howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall
cast them forth with silence.
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Israel's Doom at
Hand |
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Hear this, O ye that swallow up the
needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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saying, When will the new moon be gone,
that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the
balances by deceit?
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That we may buy the poor for silver, and
the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of
the wheat?
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The LORD hath 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 dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly
as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the
flood of Egypt.
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And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord GOD, 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 up
sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will
make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof
as a bitter day.
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord
GOD, 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 the LORD:
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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 the LORD, and shall not find it.
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In that day shall the fair virgins and
young men faint for thirst.
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They that swear by the sin of Samaria,
and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba
liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up
again.
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