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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"><title>Amos 8</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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.htm" title="Amos 7">◄</a> Amos 8 <a href="../amos/9.htm" 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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/amos/8.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/amos/8.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/amos/8.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/amos/8.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/amos/8.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/amos/8.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/amos/8.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Basket of Summer Fruit<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. <p class="reg">“A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. <p class="reg"> So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.” <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> of the temple<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!” <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear this, you who trample the needy, <p class="indent2"> who do away with the poor of the land, <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>asking, “When will the New Moon be over, <p class="indent2"> that we may sell grain? <p class="indent1"> When will the Sabbath end, <p class="indent2"> that we may market wheat? <p class="indent1"> Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel;<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <p class="indent2"> let us cheat with dishonest scales. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let us buy the poor with silver <p class="indent2"> and the needy for a pair of sandals, <p class="indent2"> selling even the chaff with the wheat!” <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: <p class="indent1stline">“I will never forget any of their deeds. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Will not the land quake for this, <p class="indent2"> and all its dwellers mourn? <p class="indent1"> All of it will swell like the Nile; <p class="indent2"> it will surge and then subside <p class="indent2"> like the Nile in Egypt. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And in that day, <p class="indent2"> declares the Lord GOD, <p class="indent1"> I will make the sun go down at noon, <p class="indent2"> and I will darken the earth in the daytime. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will turn your feasts into mourning <p class="indent2"> and all your songs into lamentation. <p class="indent1"> I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth <p class="indent2"> and every head to be shaved. <p class="indent1"> I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, <p class="indent2"> and its outcome like a bitter day. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, the days are coming, <p class="indent2"> declares the Lord GOD, <p class="indent2"> when I will send a famine on the land—<p class="indent1"> not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, <p class="indent2"> but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>People will stagger from sea to sea <p class="indent2"> and roam from north to east, <p class="indent1"> seeking the word of the LORD, <p class="indent2"> but they will not find it. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In that day the lovely young women—<p class="indent2"> the young men as well—<p class="indent2"> will faint from thirst. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria <p class="indent2"> and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ <p class="indent1"> or, ‘As surely as the way<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> of Beersheba lives’—<p class="indent2"> they will fall, never to rise again.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>ripe fruit</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 2<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>the singing women</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>palace</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>Let us reduce the measure and increase the price</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Or <i>the god</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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