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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.
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