Amos Chapter 8
Israel will go into exile.’” Amos 7:10-17
A Vision of Ripe Fruit
1 The Lord Yahveh showed me a basket of ripe fruit.
2 “What do you see, Amos?”
“A basket of ripe fruit.”
“My people Israel are also ripe—for punishment. I won’t spare them any longer. 3 The singing at the palace will turn into wailing. There’ll be lots of corpses silently thrown out everywhere.”
4 Listen to this, you that run over the needy and trample on the humble, 5 saying,
“When’s the new moon going to be over
so we can buy grain?
When will the Sabbath be past
so we can open the wheat market,
make the bushel smaller, the shekel heavier,
and cheat with dishonest scales;
6so we can buy the helpless for money
and the poor for a pair of shoes,
and sell the chaff with the wheat?”
Amos 8:1-6
7 Yahveh has sworn by Jacob’s arrogance,
“I’ll never forget what they’ve done.
8“Because of it, won’t the land quake
and everybody in it mourn?
It will swell up like the Nile,
flood all over, and recede.
9At that time, I’ll make the sun go down at noon
and make the earth dark in broad daylight.
10I’ll turn your festivals into mourning
and your singing into funeral chants.
I’ll put burlap around everybody’s waist
and make every head bald,
like the mourning for an only son;
the end will be a bitter day.”
Amos 8:7-10
11 The Lord Yahveh says.
“The time’s coming when
I’ll send a famine on the land,
not a famine of bread and water,
but a famine of hearing from Yahveh.
12People will stagger from sea to sea,
from north to east,
here to there,
looking for a message from Yahveh,
but not finding any.
13At that time, beautiful virgins
and strong young men will faint from thirst.
14The ones that swear by the guilt of Samaria,
who say, ‘As your god lives, Dan,’
‘As the way to Beersheba lives’—
will fall and never get up.”
Amos 8:11-14