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8 : 1 This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
8 : 2 What do you see, Amos? he asked. "A basket 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.
8 : 3 In that day, declares the Sovereign LORD, "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies--flung everywhere! Silence!"
8 : 4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
8 : 5 saying, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?"-- skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
8 : 6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
8 : 7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget anything they have done.
8 : 8 Will not the land tremble 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.
8 : 9 In that day, declares the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
8 : 10 I will turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
8 : 11 The days are coming, 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 of hearing the words of the LORD.
8 : 12 Men 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.
8 : 13 In that day the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.
8 : 14 They who swear by the shame of Samaria, or say, `As surely as your god lives, O Dan,` or, `As surely as the god of Beersheba lives`-- they will fall, never to rise again."