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Amos 8 (NLT) New Living Translation

1 Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
2 "What do you see, Amos?" he asked.I replied, "A basket full of ripe fruit." Then the LORD said, "Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.
3 In that day the singing in the Temple will turn to wailing. Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere. They will be carried out of the city in silence. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!"
4 Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy!
5 You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out grain with dishonest measures and cheat the buyer with dishonest scales.
6 And you mix the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
7 Now the LORD has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel: "I will never forget the wicked things you have done!
8 The earth will tremble for your deeds, and everyone will mourn. The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime; it will heave up, then sink again.
9 "In that day," says the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it is still day.
10 I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to show your sorrow-- as if your only son had died. How very bitter that day will be!
11 "The time is surely coming," says the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine on the land-- not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from border to border searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
13 Beautiful girls and strong young men will grow faint in that day, thirsting for the LORD's word.
14 And those who swear by the shameful idols of Samaria-- who take oaths in the name of the god of Dan and make vows in the name of the god of Beersheba-- they will all fall down, never to rise again."
1 Thus H3541 hath the Lord H136 EDS GOD H3069 showed H7200 unto me : and behold H2009 IJEC a basket H3619 of summer fruit H7019 .
2 And he said H559 W-VQY3MS , Amos H5986 , what H4100 IGAT seest H7200 VQPMS thou H859 PPRO-2MS ? And I said H559 W-VQY3MS , A basket H3619 of summer fruit H7019 . Then said H559 W-VQY3MS the LORD H3068 EDS unto H413 PREP me , The end H7093 is come H935 VQPMS upon H413 PREP my people H5971 of Israel H3478 ; I will not H3808 NADV again H3254 VHY1MS pass by H5674 them any more H5750 ADV .
3 And the songs H7892 of the temple H1964 shall be howlings H3213 in that H1931 D-PPRO-3MS day H3117 B-AMS , saith H5002 the Lord H136 EDS GOD H3069 : there shall be many H7227 AMS dead bodies H6297 in every H3605 B-CMS place H4725 NUM-MS ; they shall cast them forth H7993 with silence H2013 .
4 Hear H8085 VQI2MP this H2063 DPRO , O ye that swallow up H7602 the needy H34 , even to make the poor H6041 of the land H776 to fail H7673 ,
5 Saying H559 L-VQFC , When H4970 IGAT will the new moon H2320 D-NMS be gone H5674 VQY3MS , that we may sell H7666 corn H7668 ? and the sabbath H7676 , that we may set forth H6605 wheat H1250 , making the ephah small H6994 , and the shekel H8255 great H1431 , and falsifying H5791 the balances H3976 by deceit H4820 NFS ?
6 That we may buy H7069 the poor H1800 JMP for silver H3701 BD-NMS , and the needy H34 W-AMS for H5668 B-NMS a pair of shoes H5275 ; yea , and sell H7666 the refuse H4651 of the wheat H1250 ?
7 The LORD H3068 EDS hath sworn H7650 by the excellency H1347 B-CMS of Jacob H3290 , Surely H518 PART I will never H5331 L-NMS forget H7911 any H3605 NMS of their works H4639 .
8 Shall not H3808 ADV the land H776 D-GFS tremble H7264 for H5921 this H2063 DPRO , and every one H3605 NMS mourn H56 that dwelleth H3427 VQPMS therein ? and it shall rise up H5927 wholly H3605 NMS as a flood H2975 ; and it shall be cast out H1644 and drowned H8257 , as by the flood H2975 of Egypt H4714 .
9 And it shall come to pass H1961 W-VQQ3MS in that H1931 D-PPRO-3MS day H3117 B-NMS , saith H5002 the Lord H136 EDS GOD H3069 , that I will cause the sun H8121 D-NMS to go down H935 at noon H6672 , and I will darken H2821 the earth H776 LD-NFS in the clear H216 NMS day H3117 B-NMS :
10 And I will turn H2015 your feasts H2282 into mourning H60 L-NMS , and all H3605 NMS your songs H7892 into lamentation H7015 ; and I will bring up H5927 sackcloth H8242 upon H5921 PREP all H3605 NMS loins H4975 , and baldness H7144 upon H5921 PREP every H3605 NMS head H7218 NMS ; and I will make H7760 it as the mourning H60 of an only H3173 son , and the end H319 thereof as a bitter H4751 day H3117 .
11 Behold H2009 IJEC , the days H3117 NMP come H935 , saith H5002 the Lord H136 EDS GOD H3069 , that I will send H7971 a famine H7458 NMS in the land H776 B-NFS , not H3808 ADV a famine H7458 NMS of bread H3899 LD-NMS , nor H3808 ADV a thirst H6772 for water H4325 , but H518 PART of hearing H8085 the words H1697 CMP of the LORD H3068 NAME-4MS :
12 And they shall wander H5128 from sea H3220 M-NMS to H5704 PREP sea H3220 NMS , and from the north H6828 even to H5704 PREP the east H4217 , they shall run to and fro H7751 to seek H1245 the word H1697 CMS of the LORD H3068 EDS , and shall not H3808 W-NPAR find H4672 it .
13 In that H1931 D-PPRO-3MS day H3117 B-AMS shall the fair H3303 virgins H1330 and young men H970 faint H5968 for thirst H6772 .
14 They that swear H7650 by the sin H819 of Samaria H8111 , and say H559 W-VQQ3MP , Thy god H430 CMP-2MS , O Dan H1835 , liveth H2416 ; and , The manner H1870 NMS of Beer H884 - sheba liveth H2416 ; even they shall fall H5307 , and never H3808 W-NPAR rise up H6965 VQY3MP again H5750 ADV .