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    Amos · 14 verses

    Amos 8

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    At noon the sun goes down, and the earth is dark in the daytime; shortly afterward, people will search from sea to sea for the word of the LORD and fail to find it.

    The basket and the endingvv. 1–3

    Amos is shown a basket of summer fruit, a perfectly ordinary object carrying an extraordinarily final meaning. Asked what he sees, he answers plainly; the LORD then says that the end has come for Israel, and the temple songs are destined to become wailing, with corpses strewn in silence everywhere.

    Business, briefly interruptedvv. 4–10

    The merchants can hardly wait for the New Moon and Sabbath to be over so that trade may resume. Their proposed improvements are to shrink the measure, enlarge the price, use dishonest scales, buy the poor for silver or sandals, and sell chaff along with wheat—a brisk little programme of commercial wickedness. The LORD swears not to forget any of it, and the land will quake; feasts become mourning, songs become lamentation, and the sun itself goes down at noon.

    The famine of hearingvv. 11–14

    The next famine is unusually precise: not bread, not water, but hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east looking for the word, and it will not be found. Young women and young men faint from thirst, while those who swear by Samaria, Dan, and Beersheba fall and never rise again.

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    1. Amos 8:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

    2. Amos 8:2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

    3. Amos 8:3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

    4. Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

    5. Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

    6. Amos 8:6Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

    7. Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

    8. Amos 8:8Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

    9. Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

    10. Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

    11. Amos 8:11Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

    12. Amos 8:12People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

    13. Amos 8:13In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.

    14. Amos 8:14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 111 Samuel 3:1And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare, and visions were scarce.
    • 11Psalms 74:9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
    • 112 Chronicles 15:3For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
    • 111 Samuel 28:6He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.
    • 11Ezekiel 7:26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
    • 11Matthew 9:36When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
    • 11Micah 3:6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
    • 11Isaiah 30:20–21The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
    • 111 Samuel 28:15Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”
    • 11Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
    • 9Mark 15:33From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
    • 8Amos 9:5The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
    • 9Matthew 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
    • 4Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
    • 5Nehemiah 13:15–21In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
    • 7Amos 6:8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

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