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And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come to My people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more. <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day," says the Lord GOD."The dead bodies <i>shall be</i> many. In every place one shall throw <i>them</i> out with silence."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Saying, "When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; and sell the chaff of the wheat?"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The LORD has sworn by the Glory of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like a flood. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And it shall be in that day," says the Lord GOD, "I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the light of day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "that I will send <i>a famine</i> in the land; not a <i>famine</i> of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Those who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, '<i>As</i> your God lives, O Dan,' and, '<i>As</i> the way of Beersheba lives'--even they shall fall and never rise up again."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="https://afaithfulversion.org/">A Faithful Version</a><br><br>Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011<br>York Publishing Company<br>Post Office Box 1038<br>Hollister, California 95024-1038<br><br>All rights reserved.<br>All Scripture may be freely quoted except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means--electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or information storage and retrieval systems, or use of hermeneutical conclusions of copyright owner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../amos/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Amos 7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Amos 7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../amos/9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Amos 9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Amos 9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>