Amo 8 | ESV | STEP | This is what the Lord God showed me: behold , a basket of summer fruit .

ad[See ver. 11 above]

ae[ch. 4:8]

af Isa. 51:20

ag[Jonah 4:8]

ah Deut. 9:21; 1 Kgs. 12:29, 30; Hos. 10:8

ai[Acts 9:2]

aj ch. 5:5

Amos 8

The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

1 ^aThis is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, ^b“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, ^c“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

^d“The end ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike} has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
3 ^fThe songs of the temple ^{▼▼Or palace} ^hshall become wailings ^{▼▼Or The singing women of the palace shall wail} in that day,”

declares the Lord God.
^j“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
^k“Silence!”
4 Hear this, ^lyou who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will ^mthe new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And ⁿthe Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make ^othe ephah small and the shekel ^{▼▼An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for ^qsilver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by ^rthe pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^sI will never forget any of their deeds.
8 ^tShall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^uand all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about ^vand sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
9 “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
^w“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 ^xI will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
^yI will bring sackcloth on every waist
^zand baldness on every head;
^aaI will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when ^abI will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
^acbut of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 ^adThey shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
^aebut they shall not find it.
13 ^af“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall ^agfaint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by ^ahthe Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As ^aithe Way of ^ajBeersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”