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| Amos 8:1 | Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit. | | This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit. |
| Amos 8:2 | And He saith, `What art thou seeing, Amos?` and I say, `A basket of summer-fruit.` And Jehovah saith unto me: `The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it. | | And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin. |
| Amos 8:3 | And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw hush! | | And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word. |
| Amos 8:4 | Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, | | Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, |
| Amos 8:5 | Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. | | Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; |
| Amos 8:6 | To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell. | | Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain. |
| Amos 8:7 | Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works. | | The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works. |
| Amos 8:8 | For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt. | | Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt. |
| Amos 8:9 | And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light, | | And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight: |
| Amos 8:10 | And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness. | | Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day. |
| Amos 8:11 | Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah. | | See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord. |
| Amos 8:12 | And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find. | | And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it. |
| Amos 8:13 | In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst. | | In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water. |
| Amos 8:14 | Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen and rise not again!` | | Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up. |
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