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Amos 8
New International Version

### A Basket of Ripe Fruit

8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(A) a basket of ripe fruit. 2 “What do you see,(B) Amos?(C)” he asked.

“A basket(D) of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(E)

3 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](F) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(G)”

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor(H) of the land,(I)

5 saying,

“When will the New Moon(J) be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market(K) wheat?”(L)—
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating(M) with dishonest scales,(N)
6 buying the poor(O) with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.(P)

7 The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:(Q) “I will never forget(R) anything they have done.(S)

8 “Will not the land tremble(T) for this,
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.(U)

9 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.(V)
10 I will turn your religious festivals(W) into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.(X)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(Y)
and shave(Z) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(AA)
and the end of it like a bitter day.(AB)

11 “The days are coming,”(AC) declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine(AD) of hearing the words of the Lord.(AE)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.(AF)

13 “In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men(AG)
will faint because of thirst.(AH)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria(AI)—
who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’(AJ)
or, ‘As surely as the god[b] of Beersheba(AK) lives’—
they will fall,(AL) never to rise again.(AM)”

#### Footnotes

1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail
2. Amos 8:14 Hebrew the way

#### Cross references

1. Amos 8:1 : S Am 7:1
2. Amos 8:2 : Jer 1:13; 24:3
3. Amos 8:2 : Am 7:8
4. Amos 8:2 : S Ge 40:16
5. Amos 8:2 : S La 4:18; Eze 7:2-9
6. Amos 8:3 : S Am 5:16
7. Amos 8:3 : Am 6:10
8. Amos 8:4 : S Pr 30:14
9. Amos 8:4 : S Job 20:19; S Ps 14:4; S Am 2:7
10. Amos 8:5 : S Nu 10:10
11. Amos 8:5 : Isa 58:13
12. Amos 8:5 : S Ne 10:31
13. Amos 8:5 : S Ge 31:7
14. Amos 8:5 : Dt 25:15; 2Ki 4:23; Ne 13:15-16; Eze 45:10-12; S Hos 12:7; Mic 6:10-11; Zec 5:6
15. Amos 8:6 : Am 5:11
16. Amos 8:6 : S Am 2:6; S 4:1
17. Amos 8:7 : S Ps 47:4
18. Amos 8:7 : S Hos 8:13
19. Amos 8:7 : S Job 35:15
20. Amos 8:8 : S Job 9:6; Jer 51:29
21. Amos 8:8 : Ps 18:7; S Jer 46:8; Am 9:5
22. Amos 8:9 : S Job 5:14; Isa 59:9-10; Jer 13:16; 15:9; S Eze 32:7; S Am 5:8; Mic 3:6; Mt 27:45; Mk 15:33; Lk 23:44-45
23. Amos 8:10 : S Lev 26:31
24. Amos 8:10 : S La 5:15; S Hos 2:11
25. Amos 8:10 : S Joel 1:8
26. Amos 8:10 : S Lev 13:40; S Isa 3:17
27. Amos 8:10 : S Ge 21:16
28. Amos 8:10 : S Jer 2:19; S Eze 7:18
29. Amos 8:11 : Jer 30:3; 31:27
30. Amos 8:11 : S Isa 30:20
31. Amos 8:11 : S 1Sa 3:1; S 28:6; S 2Ch 15:3
32. Amos 8:12 : S Eze 20:3, 31
33. Amos 8:13 : S Isa 9:17
34. Amos 8:13 : Isa 41:17; Hos 2:3
35. Amos 8:14 : Mic 1:5
36. Amos 8:14 : S 1Ki 12:29
37. Amos 8:14 : S Am 5:5
38. Amos 8:14 : S Ps 46:2
39. Amos 8:14 : S Am 5:2

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