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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Amos 8 NKJV KJV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/amos/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../../topmenuchap/amos/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/amos/">Amos</a> > Amos 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/7.shtml" title="Amos 7">◄</a> Amos 8 <a href="../amos/9.shtml" title="Amos 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">NKJV Parallel KJV <a href="../../bsb/amos/8.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/amos/8.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/amos/8.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/amos/8.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/amos/8.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/amos/8.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/amos/8.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/amos/8.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/amos/8.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/amos/8.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/amos/8.shtml">HEB]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New King James Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">King James Bible</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me: “The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day,” Says the Lord GOD— “Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: <i>there shall be</i> many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast <i>them</i> forth with silence.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Saying: “When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; <i>yea</i>, and sell the refuse of the wheat?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their works.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Shall the land not tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall swell like the River, Heave and subside Like the River of Egypt.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 <i>by</i> the flood of Egypt.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “That I will make the sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad daylight;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only <i>son,</i> And its end like a bitter day.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 <i>son</i>, and the end thereof as a bitter day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“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 of hearing the words of the LORD.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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 not find <i>it.</i><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 <i>it</i>.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“In that day the fair virgins And strong young men Shall faint from thirst.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, Who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan!’ And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives!’ They shall fall and never rise again.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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