Amos 8

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1 This is what my Lord Adonai showed me. Look!
a basket of fruit from summer's end.

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2 He said,
"What do you see, Amos?"
And I said,
"A basket of fruit from summer's end."
Then Adonai said to me,
"The end is coming for my people Israel;
I will not again pass them by.

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3 They will wail out the temple songs in that day,"
(My Lord Adonai's oracle)
"the corpses are numerous, everywhere thrown out.
Shush!"

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4 Hear this: You're persecuting the needy,
destroying the humble of the land.

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5 saying, "When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell corn;

and the Sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat?
Making the measure small and the price great,
with the help of crooked deceitful scales,

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6 acquiring the poor with silver
and the needy for the sake of a pair of sandals,
and selling the husks of the wheat."

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7 Adonai has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget any of their actions.

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8 Will the land not tremble because of this,
and everyone who lives in it mourn?
It will all rise like a river,
and it will be driven away and collapse, like the Nile of Egypt.

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9 It will come about on that day,
(Lord Adonai's oracle)
that I will make the sun set at noon,
and darken the land in broad daylight.

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10 I will transform your festivals into mourning,
    and all your songs into dirges;
I will bring sackcloth round each waist,
    and baldness to every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
   and it ends like a bitter day.

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11 Days are surely coming, (My Lord Adonai's oracle.)
    when I will send hunger on the land;
     not hunger for bread, or thirst for water,
      but for hearing Adonai's words.
12 They will stagger from sea to sea,
      and from north to east;
     they will run back and forth,
      seeking the message of Adonai,
       but they'll not find it.

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13 In that day beautiful young women and young men shall faint of thirst.

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14 Swearing by Samaria's guilt,
they say, "as your god lives, Dan!"
and, "as the road to Beer-sheba lives!" -
they will fall, and not rise again.

Amos 9

1 I saw my lord standing on the altar, and he said:
"Strike the capitals and the thresholds will shake.
Break them on all their heads.
Those left, I will kill with the sword;
   not one who runs away shall get away,
   not a fugitive shall escape.
2 If they dig to Sheol,
   from there my hand will take them;
if they climb to heaven,
   from there I will bring them down.
3 If they hide on Carmel's crest,
   from there I will search and take them;
if they hide from my sight on the sea bed,
   there I will command the serpent,
    and it will bite them.
4 if they go into captivity before their enemies,
   there I will command the sword,
    and it will kill them.
I will fix my eyes on them
for evil and not for good.

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