{"book":"Amos","slug":"amos","ch":8,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Amos","prev":"amos/7","next":"amos/9","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.","f":["Or ripe fruit; also in verse 2"],"h":"The Basket of Summer Fruit","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"“ 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.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"“ Amos, what do you see?” He asked."},{"style":"reg","t":"“ A basket of summer fruit,” I replied."},{"style":"reg","t":"So the LORD said to me,“ The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”"}],"style":"reg"},{"v":3,"t":"“ 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!”","f":["Or the singing women","Or palace"],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Hear this, you who trample the needy,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"who do away with the poor of the land,"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":5,"t":"asking,“ 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.","f":["Or Let us reduce the measure and increase the price"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"asking,“ When will the New Moon be over,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"that we may sell grain?"},{"style":"indent1","t":"When will the Sabbath [end],"},{"style":"indent2","t":"that we may market wheat?"},{"style":"indent1","t":"Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"let us cheat with dishonest scales."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Let us buy the poor with silver"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the needy for a pair of sandals,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"selling even the chaff with the wheat!”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:“ I will never forget any of their deeds.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ I will never forget any of their deeds."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"Will 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.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Will not the land quake for this,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and all its dwellers mourn?"},{"style":"indent1","t":"All of it will swell like the Nile;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"it will surge and then subside"},{"style":"indent2","t":"like the Nile in Egypt."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":9,"t":"And 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.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"And in that day,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"declares the Lord GOD,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"I will make the sun go down at noon,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and I will darken the earth in the daytime."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":10,"t":"I 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.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I will turn your feasts into mourning"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and all your songs into lamentation."},{"style":"indent1","t":"I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and every head to be shaved."},{"style":"indent1","t":"I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and its outcome like a bitter day."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"Behold, 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.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Behold, the days are coming,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"declares the Lord GOD,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"when I will send a famine on the land —"},{"style":"indent1","t":"not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"but [a famine] of hearing the words of the LORD."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":12,"t":"People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"People will stagger from sea to sea"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and roam from north to east,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"seeking the word of the LORD,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"but they will not find it."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"In that day the lovely young women — the young men as well — will faint from thirst.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"In that day the lovely young women —"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the young men as well —"},{"style":"indent2","t":"will faint from thirst."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"Those 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.”","f":["Or the god"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and say,‘ As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’"},{"style":"indent1","t":"or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives ’—"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they will fall, never to rise again.”"}],"style":"indent1"}]}