Amos 8 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/amos/8.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Vision of the Summer Fruit</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Amos-8-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thus the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span> showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”</span></p><p><span class="text Amos-8-2">So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”</span></p><p><span class="text Amos-8-2">Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> said to me:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Amos-8-2">“The end has come upon My people Israel;</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-2">I will not pass by them anymore.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the songs of the temple</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-3">Shall be wailing in that day,”</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-3">Says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span>—</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-3">“Many dead bodies everywhere,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-3">They shall be thrown out in silence.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear this, you who <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>swallow up the needy,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-4">And make the poor of the land fail,</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Saying:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Amos-8-5">“When will the New Moon be past,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-5">That we may sell grain?</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-5">And the Sabbath,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-5">That we may <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>trade wheat?</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-5">Making the ephah small and the shekel large,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-5">Falsifying the scales by deceit,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That we may buy the poor for silver,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-6">And the needy for a pair of sandals—</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-6">Even sell the bad wheat?”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has sworn by the pride of Jacob:</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-7">“Surely I will never forget any of their works.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Shall the land not tremble for this,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-8">And everyone mourn who dwells in it?</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-8">All of it shall swell like <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>the River,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-8">Heave and subside</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-8">Like the River of Egypt.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-9">“That I will make the sun go down at noon,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-9">And I will darken the earth in <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>broad daylight;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will turn your feasts into mourning,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-10">And all your songs into lamentation;</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-10">I will bring sackcloth on every waist,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-10">And baldness on every head;</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-10">I will make it like mourning for an only <i>son,</i></span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-10">And its end like a bitter day.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-11">“That I will send a famine on the land,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-11">Not a famine of bread,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-11">Nor a thirst for water,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-11">But of hearing the words of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They shall wander from sea to sea,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-12">And from north to east;</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-12">They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-12">But shall not find <i>it.</i></span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“In that day the fair virgins</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-13">And strong young men</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-13">Shall faint from thirst.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Those who swear by the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>sin of Samaria,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-14">Who say,</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-14">‘As your god lives, O Dan!’</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-14">And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives!’</span><br /><span class="text Amos-8-14">They shall fall and never rise again.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22486a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Amos 8:4">Amos 8:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>trample on,</i> <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Amos.2.7" href="/passage/?search=Amos.2.7&version=NKJV">Amos 2:7</span></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22487b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Amos 8:5">Amos 8:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>open</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22490c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Amos 8:8">Amos 8:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>The Nile; some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg., Syr., Vg. <i>River</i> (cf. <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Amos.9.5" href="/passage/?search=Amos.9.5&version=NKJV">9:5</span>); MT <i>the light</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22491d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Amos 8:9">Amos 8:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>a day of light</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22496e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Amos 8:14">Amos 8:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Ashima,</i> a Syrian goddess</span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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