Amos 8

Amos 8:2

And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said

the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, I have heretofore gathered and plucked off some of thy fruits, that is thy people; but now I come to thee, with a basket, to gather all that grows upon Israel; and will so make an end of this gathering, that there shall be no more of this kind left for hereafter.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temples shall be howlings in

the day, saith the Lord God. Instead of the songs and music of the temples of Beth-el, and other high places, there shall be nothing but howlings and shriekings of those that are slain.

Amos 8:5

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we

may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? Saying, When shall we have done with these solemn feasts, wherein we are not allowed to buy and sell? Would to God, these new moons and sabbaths were once past, that we might sell our corn at a high rate; making the measure of the wheat small, and the weights, wherein the silver is weighed, great and heavy; and falsifying the balances by deceit.

Amos 8:6

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy

for a pair of shoes; and sell the refuse of the wheat? That we may cause the poor to sell themselves to our servitude, for a little silver, as being not able to sustain themselves; and that we may buy the needy for a pair of shoes, even for the basest necessaries: yea, and that, by this means, we may put off, at an unreasonable rate, the very refuse and offal of the wheat.

Amos 8:8

And it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall

be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. And the judgment of God shall rise up, and overflow the land, as a flood; and the whole country shall be overspread and drowned therewith, as the plains are wont to be by the inundations of the river Nilus.

Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the

Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. Your sorrow shall be so extreme in that day, and that day shall be to you so black and gloomy, as if the sun were gone down at noon-day, and as if darkness had covered the earth in the clearest day.

Amos 8:10

And I will make it as the mourning of an only

son. Such a mourning will I cause amongst you, as when a mother mourns for her only son.

Amos 8:11

Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

Not a famine of material bread, &c. but a spiritual famine of the word of God, which is only able to feed and save your souls.

Amos 8:12

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

And they shall wander from the sea of Galilee to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the north across unto the east, to seek the word of the Lord at the mouth of his prophets, and shall not find it.

Amos 8:14

They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

Those idolatrous Israelites, that swear by the molten images of Samaria, and say, As the God, which is worshipped in Dan, and the author of the religion of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall into utter perdition, and never rise again.