Amos 8

Revised Geneva Translation

8 Thus has the LORD God shown to me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.

² And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then said the LORD to me, “The end has come upon my people of Israel. I will pass by them no more.

³ “And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings on that day,” said the LORD God. “Many dead bodies shall be in every place. They shall cast them forth with silence.”

⁴ “Hear this, O you who swallow up the poor and may make the needy of the land fail,

⁵ saying, ‘When will the new month be gone, that we may sell corn; and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat and make the ephah small and the shekel great and falsify the weights by deceit?

⁶ ‘That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.’”

⁷ The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, “Surely, I will never forget any of their works.

⁸ “Shall not the land tremble for this; and everyone mourn who dwells therein? And it shall rise up, wholly as a flood, and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the flood of Egypt.

⁹ “And on that day,” says the LORD God, “I will even cause the Sun to go down at noon. I will darken the Earth in the clear day.

¹⁰ “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 of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

¹¹ “Behold, the days come,” says 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 Word of the LORD.

¹² “And they shall wander from sea to sea. And from the north even to the east shall they run to and fro, to seek the Word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

¹³ “On that day shall the fair virgins and the young men perish for thirst.

¹⁴ “Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and who say, ‘Your God, O Dan, lives!” and, “The manner of Beersheba lives!” even they shall fall and never rise up again.