Bible Gateway passage: Amos 8 - New International Version (2024)

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

8This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:^(A) a basket of ripe fruit. ²“What do you see,^(B) Amos?^(C)” he asked.

“A basket^(D) of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.^(E)

³“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.^[a](F) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!^(G)”

⁴Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor^(H) of the land,^(I)

⁵saying,

“When will the New Moon^(J) be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market^(K) wheat?”^(L)—
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating^(M) with dishonest scales,^(N)
6buying the poor^(O) with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.^(P)

⁷The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:^(Q) “I will never forget^(R) anything they have done.^(S)

⁸“Will not the land tremble^(T) for this,
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.^(U)

⁹“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.^(V)
10I will turn your religious festivals^(W) into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.^(X)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(Y)
and shave^(Z) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(AA)
and the end of it like a bitter day.^(AB)

¹¹“The days are coming,”^(AC) declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine^(AD) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(AE)
12People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.^(AF)

¹³“In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men^(AG)
will faint because of thirst.^(AH)
14Those who swear by the sin of Samaria^(AI)—
who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’^(AJ)
or, ‘As surely as the god^[b] of Beersheba^(AK) lives’—
they will fall,^(AL) never to rise again.^(AM)”

Footnotes

1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail
2. Amos 8:14 Hebrew the way

Cross references

1. Amos 8:1 : S Am 7:1
2. Amos 8:2 : Jer 1:13; 24:3
3. Amos 8:2 : Am 7:8
4. Amos 8:2 : S Ge 40:16
5. Amos 8:2 : S La 4:18; Eze 7:2-9
6. Amos 8:3 : S Am 5:16
7. Amos 8:3 : Am 6:10
8. Amos 8:4 : S Pr 30:14
9. Amos 8:4 : S Job 20:19; S Ps 14:4; S Am 2:7
10. Amos 8:5 : S Nu 10:10
11. Amos 8:5 : Isa 58:13
12. Amos 8:5 : S Ne 10:31
13. Amos 8:5 : S Ge 31:7
14. Amos 8:5 : Dt 25:15; 2Ki 4:23; Ne 13:15-16; Eze 45:10-12; S Hos 12:7; Mic 6:10-11; Zec 5:6
15. Amos 8:6 : Am 5:11
16. Amos 8:6 : S Am 2:6; S 4:1
17. Amos 8:7 : S Ps 47:4
18. Amos 8:7 : S Hos 8:13
19. Amos 8:7 : S Job 35:15
20. Amos 8:8 : S Job 9:6; Jer 51:29
21. Amos 8:8 : Ps 18:7; S Jer 46:8; Am 9:5
22. Amos 8:9 : S Job 5:14; Isa 59:9-10; Jer 13:16; 15:9; S Eze 32:7; S Am 5:8; Mic 3:6; Mt 27:45; Mk 15:33; Lk 23:44-45
23. Amos 8:10 : S Lev 26:31
24. Amos 8:10 : S La 5:15; S Hos 2:11
25. Amos 8:10 : S Joel 1:8
26. Amos 8:10 : S Lev 13:40; S Isa 3:17
27. Amos 8:10 : S Ge 21:16
28. Amos 8:10 : S Jer 2:19; S Eze 7:18
29. Amos 8:11 : Jer 30:3; 31:27
30. Amos 8:11 : S Isa 30:20
31. Amos 8:11 : S 1Sa 3:1; S 28:6; S 2Ch 15:3
32. Amos 8:12 : S Eze 20:3, 31
33. Amos 8:13 : S Isa 9:17
34. Amos 8:13 : Isa 41:17; Hos 2:3
35. Amos 8:14 : Mic 1:5
36. Amos 8:14 : S 1Ki 12:29
37. Amos 8:14 : S Am 5:5
38. Amos 8:14 : S Ps 46:2
39. Amos 8:14 : S Am 5:2