Amos 8 - Names of God Bible (NOG)

The End Has Come for Israel

8 This is what Adonay Yahweh showed me: a basket of ripe summer fruit.

2 He asked, “What do you see, Amos?”

“A basket of ripe summer fruit,” I answered.

Then Yahweh said to me, “My people Israel are now ripe. I will no longer overlook what they have done. 3 On that day the songs of the temple will become loud cries,” declares Adonay Yahweh. “There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Hush!”

4 Listen to this, those who trample on the needy
and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.
5 You say to yourselves,
“When will the New Moon Festival be over
so that we can sell more grain?
When will the day of worship be over
so that we can sell more wheat?
We can shrink the size of the bushel baskets,
increase the cost,
and cheat with dishonest scales.
6 We can buy the poor with money
and the needy for a pair of sandals.
We can sell the husks mixed in with the wheat.”

7 Yahweh has sworn an oath by Jacob’s pride:
“I will never forget anything that they have done.”

8 The land will tremble because of this.
Everyone who lives in it will mourn.
The entire land will rise like the Nile,
be tossed about, and then sink like Egypt’s river.

9 On that day, declares Adonay Yahweh,
I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your festivals into funerals
and all your songs into funeral songs.
I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist
and shave everyone’s head.
I will make that day seem like a funeral for an only child,
and its end will be bitter.

11 The days are going to come, declares Adonay Yahweh,
when I will send a famine throughout the land.
It won’t be an ordinary famine or drought.
Instead, there will be a famine of hearing the words of Yahweh.
12 People will wander from sea to sea
and roam from the north to the east,
searching for the word of Yahweh.
But they won’t find it.

13 On that day beautiful young women and strong young men
will faint because of their thirst.
14 How horrible it will be for those who swear by Ashimah,[a]
the idol of Samaria, and say,
“I solemnly swear, Dan, as your god lives. . . .”
“I solemnly swear as long as there is a road to Beersheba. . . .”
Those who say this will fall and never get up again.

Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:14 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

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