Thematic Bible
Amos 8:1 (show verse)
The Lord God showed me this: A basket of summer fruit.
Amos 8:2 (show verse)
He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”
I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”
The Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.
I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”
The Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel;
Amos 8:3 (show verse)
In that day the temple songs will become wailing”—this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”
Amos 8:4 (show verse)
and do away with the poor of the land,
Amos 8:5 (show verse)
so we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price
and cheat with dishonest scales.
Amos 8:6 (show verse)
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and even sell the chaff!”
Amos 8:7 (show verse)
The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:
I will never forget all their deeds.
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Amos 8:8 (show verse)
and all who dwell in it mourn?
All of it will rise like the Nile;
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.
Amos 8:9 (show verse)
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
I will make the sun go down at noon;
I will darken the land in the daytime.
Amos 8:10 (show verse)
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will cause everyone
and every head to be shaved.
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son
and its outcome like a bitter day.
Amos 8:11 (show verse)
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
Amos 8:12 (show verse)
and roam from north to east,
seeking the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.
Amos 8:13 (show verse)
the young men also, will faint from thirst.
Amos 8:14 (show verse)
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the way
they will fall, never to rise again.