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Amos 8

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📖 Amos introduction

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1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. ✦ 2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.” ✦ 3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!” ✦ 4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, ✦ 5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. ✦ 6Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!” ✦ 7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds. ✦ 8Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt. ✦ 9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime. ✦ 10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day. ✦ 11Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. ✦ 12People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. ✦ 13In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst. ✦ 14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Amos 5 ·7Amos 7 ·5Amos 8 ·4Ezek 7 ·4Ezek 8 ·3Amos 6 ·3Joel 1 ·3Matt 24 ·3

Christ at the center

Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.

How Amos 8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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Commentaries & study tools

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Amos 8David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on AmosMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Amos 8Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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