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Amos

Chapter 08

1``This is what the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God showed me:

There was a basket of figs.

2`` And he said, "Amos, what do you see?"

And I said, "A basket of figs."

Then the Lord/'Adonay said to me,
"The 'hour of doom'/end has come upon My people Israel.

I will not pardon them again.

3``And the singing women of the palace shall howl on that day,"
said the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God.

"So many corpses . . . left lying everywhere . . . Hush!"

4-6`` Listen/'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`} to this . . .
you who devour the needy . . .
annihilating the poor of the land . . . 5``
saying, "If only the new moon were over,
so that we could sell grain.

The Sabbath . . . so that we could offer wheat for sale . . .
using a ephah that is too small . . .
and a shekel that is too big . . .
tilting a dishonest scale . . .
and selling grain refuse as grain! 6``

We will buy the poor for silver . . .
the needy for a pair of sandals."

7-8``Jehovah/God has sworn by the Pride of Jacob,
"Surely I will never forget any of their doings/works. 8``

Shall not the earth quake for this
and all that dwell on it mourn?

Shall it not all rise like the Nile
as surge and subside like the Nile of Egypt?

9``And in that day," said the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God,
"I will cause the sun to set at noon,
and I will darken the earth on a sunny day. 10``

I will turn your festivals into mourning
and all your songs into dirges . . .
I will put sackcloth on all loins . . .
and tonsures on every head.

I will make it mourn as for an only child,
all of it as on a bitter day.

11``A time is coming," said the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God,
"when I will send a famine upon the land . . .
not a hunger for bread or a thirst for water,
but for hearing the words of Jehovah/God.

12``Men shall wander from sea to sea
and from north to east to seek the word of Jehovah/God,
but they shall not find it.

13-14``In that day, the beautiful maidens
and the young men
shall faint with thirst - 14``
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria,
Saying, your " 'Elohiym/Godhead lives Dan",
and, 'As the way to Beer-Sheba lives' -
They shall fall to rise no more.