Amos 8:1-14 NKJV


Amos 8:1-14 Thus the Lord GOD showed me; Behold, a basket of summer fruit.

And He said, "Amos, what do you see?" So I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me; "The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.

And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day," Says the Lord GOD-- "Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence."

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land fail,

Saying; "When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals--Even sell the bad wheat?"

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob; "Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Shall the land not tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall swell like the River, Heave and subside Like the River of Egypt.

"And it shall come to pass in that day," says the Lord GOD, "That I will make the sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad daylight;

I will turn your feasts into morning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.

"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.

They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it.

"In that day the fair virgins And strong young men Shall faint from thirst.

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, Who say, 'As your god lives, O Dan?' And, 'As the way of Beersheba lives!' They shall fall and never rise again."

Ezekiel 7:1-4 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Now the end has come upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!'

Ezekiel 7:26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders.

Amos 5:21-27 "I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

But let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

"Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves.

Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus." Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.