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World English Bible

Amos 8 (WEBP)

[1] Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
[2] He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
[3] The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
[4] Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
[5] saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
[6] that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
[7] Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
[8] Won’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.
[9] It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
[10] I 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 its end like a bitter day.
[11] Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
[12] They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.
[13] In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
[14] Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

Amos 8:5a 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about ²⁄₃ of a bushel
Amos 8:5b A normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Amos 8 (KJVS)

[1] Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
[2] And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
[3] And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
[4] Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
[5] saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
[6] That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
[7] The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
[8] Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
[9] And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
[10] and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
[11] Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, 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 the Lord:
[12] and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
[13] In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
[14] They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

Amos 8:3a Heb. shall howl
Amos 8:3b Heb. be silent
Amos 8:5a Or, month
Amos 8:5b Heb. open
Amos 8:5c Heb. perverting the balances of deceit

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Amos 8 (BYZ)

[1] Οὕτως () ἔδειξέν () μοι () κύριος () καὶ () ἰδοὺ () ἄγγος ἰξευτοῦ.
[2] Καὶ () εἶπεν () Τί () σὺ () βλέπεις, () Αμως; () Καὶ () εἶπα () Ἄγγος ἰξευτοῦ. Καὶ () εἶπεν () κύριος () πρός () με () Ἥκει () τὸ () πέρας () ἐπὶ () τὸν () λαόν () μου () Ισραηλ, () οὐκέτι () μὴ () προσθῶ () τοῦ () παρελθεῖν () αὐτόν· ()
[3] καὶ () ὀλολύξει () τὰ () φατνώματα τοῦ () ναοῦ· () ἐν () ἐκείνῃ () τῇ () ἡμέρᾳ, () λέγει () κύριος, () πολὺς () ὁ () πεπτωκὼς () ἐν () παντὶ () τόπῳ, () ἐπιρρίψω () σιωπήν.
[4] Ἀκούσατε () δὴ () ταῦτα, () οἱ () ἐκτρίβοντες εἰς () τὸ () πρωῒ () πένητα () καὶ () καταδυναστεύοντες () πτωχοὺς () ἀπὸ () τῆς () γῆς, ()
[5] οἱ () λέγοντες () Πότε () διελεύσεται () ὁ () μὴν () καὶ () ἐμπολήσομεν καὶ () τὰ () σάββατα () καὶ () ἀνοίξομεν () θησαυροὺς () τοῦ () ποιῆσαι () μικρὸν () μέτρον () καὶ () τοῦ () μεγαλῦναι () στάθμια καὶ () ποιῆσαι () ζυγὸν () ἄδικον ()
[6] τοῦ () κτᾶσθαι () ἐν () ἀργυρίῳ () πτωχοὺς () καὶ () ταπεινὸν () ἀντὶ () ὑποδημάτων () καὶ () ἀπὸ () παντὸς () γενήματος () ἐμπορευσόμεθα; ()
[7] Ὀμνύει () κύριος () καθ’ () ὑπερηφανίας () Ιακωβ () Εἰ () ἐπιλησθήσεται () εἰς () νεῖκος πάντα () τὰ () ἔργα () ὑμῶν. ()
[8] Καὶ () ἐπὶ () τούτοις () οὐ () ταραχθήσεται () ἡ () γῆ, () καὶ () πενθήσει () πᾶς () ὁ () κατοικῶν () ἐν () αὐτῇ, () καὶ () ἀναβήσεται () ὡς () ποταμὸς () συντέλεια () καὶ () καταβήσεται () ὡς () ποταμὸς () Αἰγύπτου. ()
[9] Καὶ () ἔσται () ἐν () ἐκείνῃ () τῇ () ἡμέρᾳ, () λέγει () κύριος () ὁ () θεός, () καὶ () δύσεται () ὁ () ἥλιος () μεσημβρίας, () καὶ () συσκοτάσει ἐπὶ () τῆς () γῆς () ἐν () ἡμέρᾳ () τὸ () φῶς· ()
[10] καὶ () μεταστρέψω () τὰς () ἑορτὰς () ὑμῶν () εἰς () πένθος () καὶ () πάσας () τὰς () ᾠδὰς () ὑμῶν () εἰς () θρῆνον () καὶ () ἀναβιβῶ () ἐπὶ () πᾶσαν () ὀσφὺν () σάκκον () καὶ () ἐπὶ () πᾶσαν () κεφαλὴν () φαλάκρωμα καὶ () θήσομαι () αὐτὸν () ὡς () πένθος () ἀγαπητοῦ () καὶ () τοὺς () μετ’ () αὐτοῦ () ὡς () ἡμέραν () ὀδύνης. ()
[11] Ἰδοὺ () ἡμέραι () ἔρχονται, () λέγει () κύριος, () καὶ () ἐξαποστελῶ () λιμὸν () ἐπὶ () τὴν () γῆν, () οὐ () λιμὸν () ἄρτου () οὐδὲ () δίψαν ὕδατος, () ἀλλὰ () λιμὸν () τοῦ () ἀκοῦσαι () λόγον () κυρίου· ()
[12] καὶ () σαλευθήσονται () ὕδατα () ἕως () θαλάσσης, () καὶ () ἀπὸ () βορρᾶ () ἕως () ἀνατολῶν () περιδραμοῦνται () ζητοῦντες () τὸν () λόγον () κυρίου () καὶ () οὐ () μὴ () εὕρωσιν. ()
[13] Ἐν () τῇ () ἡμέρᾳ () ἐκείνῃ () ἐκλείψουσιν () αἱ () παρθένοι () αἱ () καλαὶ καὶ () οἱ () νεανίσκοι () ἐν () δίψει ()
[14] οἱ () ὀμνύοντες () κατὰ () τοῦ () ἱλασμοῦ () Σαμαρείας () καὶ () οἱ () λέγοντες () Ζῇ () ὁ () θεός () σου, () Δαν, καὶ () ζῇ () ὁ () θεός () σου, () Βηρσαβεε· καὶ () πεσοῦνται () καὶ () οὐ () μὴ () ἀναστῶσιν () ἔτι. ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.