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`Amos
HaShem Judges Sin
~ 8 ~
Basket of Fruit and Israel's Captivity
8:1Thus the Lord ADONAI showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
8:2He said, "`Amos, what do you see?"
I said, "A basket of summer fruit."
Then ADONAI s said to me,
"The end has come on my people Yisra'el.
I will not again pass by them any
more.
8:3The songs of the temple will be
wailings in that day," says the Lord ADONAI.
"The dead bodies will be many.
In every place they will throw them out with silence.
8:4Hear this, you who desire to
swallow up the needy,
And cause the poor of the land to
fail,
8:5Saying,
'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Shabbat, that we may market
wheat,
Making the efah small, and the shekel
large,
And dealing falsely with balances of
deceit;
8:6That we may buy the poor for
silver,
And the needy for a pair of shoes,
And sell the sweepings with the
wheat?'"
8:7ADONAI has sworn by the pride of
Ya`akov,
"Surely I will never forget any
of their works.
8:8Won't the land tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
And it will be stirred up and sink
again, like the River of Egypt.
8:9"It will happen in that
day," says the Lord ADONAI,
"That I will cause the sun to go
down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in the
clear day.
8:10I will turn your feasts into
mourning,
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
And baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
And the end of it like a bitter day.
8:11Behold, the days come," says
the Lord ADONAI,
"That I will send a famine in
the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But of hearing the words of ADONAI.
8:12They will wander from sea to sea,
And from the north even to the east;
They will run back and forth to seek
the word of ADONAI,
And will not find it.
8:13In that day the beautiful virgins
And the young men will faint for
thirst.
8:8:14Those who swear by the sin of
Shomron,
And say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;'
And, 'As the way of Be'er-Sheva
lives;'
They will fall, and never rise up
again."
ANXIOUSLY WATCHING FOR MASHIACH’S RETURN,
SPEEDILY AND IN OUR DAY. MARANA, TA!