Amos 8

8^aThus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold ^ba basket of ^csummer fruit. ²And he said, ^dAmos, what seest thou? And I said, ^bA basket of ^csummer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me,

^eThe end is come upon my people of Israel;

^dI will not again pass by them any more.

³And ^fthe songs of the temple ^†shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God:

^gThere shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth ^†with silence.

^4hHear this, ⁱO ye that ^jswallow up the needy,

Even to make ^kthe poor of the land to fail,

⁵Saying, When will the ^||lnew moon be gone, that we may ^msell corn?

And ^lthe ⁿsabbath, that we may ^†set forth wheat,

^oMaking the ephah small, and the shekel great,

And ^†falsifying ^pthe balances by deceit?

⁶That we may buy the poor ^qfor silver,

^qAnd the needy for a pair of shoes;

Yea, and ^msell ^rthe refuse of the wheat?

^7sThe Lord hath sworn by ^stthe excellency of Jacob,

Surely ^uI will never forget any of their works.

^8vShall not ^wthe land tremble for this,

And ^vxevery one mourn that dwelleth therein?

^xAnd it shall rise up wholly as a flood;

And it shall be cast out and ^xdrowned, as by ^xythe flood of Egypt.

⁹And it shall come to pass ^†in that day, saith the Lord God,

That ^yyI will cause the sun to go down at noon,

And ^zI will darken the earth in the clear day:

¹⁰And ^aI will turn your feasts into mourning,

And all your songs into lamentation;

And I will bring up ^bcsackcloth upon all loins,

And ^cbaldness upon every head;

And I will make it ^das the mourning of an only son,

And the end thereof as ^dea bitter day.

¹¹Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God,

That ^fI will send a famine in the land,

Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,

But ^fgof hearing the words of the Lord:

¹²And ^hthey shall wander ⁱfrom sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,

They shall ^krun to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

¹³In that day shall the fair virgins and young men ^lfaint ^mfor thirst.

¹⁴ⁿThey that swear by ^othe sin of ^pSamaria,

And say, Thy god, ^qO Dan, liveth;

And, ^rThe ^†manner of ^sBeer-sheba liveth;

Even they shall fall, and never rise up again.