Amos 8 (NET)

Amos 8:1¹The Sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 7:1Amos 7:4Amos 7:7

Amos 8:2²He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 7:8Lam 4:18Jer 1:11-14Mic 7:12 Sam 16:1-2Deut 26:1-4Ezek 12:23Ezek 3:10Ezek 3:7Ezek 7:2-3

Amos 8:3³The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The Sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:23Amos 6:9-10Jer 9:21-22Amos 5:16Lev 10:3Amos 4:10Amos 8:10Hos 10:5-6Isa 37:36Jer 22:18

Amos 8:4⁴Listen to this, you who trample the needy and do away with the destitute in the land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 30:14Amos 5:11Ps 14:4Isa 32:6-7Ps 12:5Amos 2:6-7Ps 140:12Jas 5:6Matt 23:131 Kgs 22:19

Amos 8:5⁵You say, “When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:15-21Hos 12:7Mic 6:10-11Deut 25:13-16Lev 19:36Exod 20:8-10Isa 1:13Prov 11:1Prov 16:11Prov 20:23

Amos 8:6⁶We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy. We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 2:6Amos 8:4Joel 3:3Joel 3:6Lev 25:39-42Neh 5:1-5Neh 5:8

Amos 8:7⁷The Lord confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob: “I swear I will never forget all you have done!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 6:8Hos 9:9Hos 8:13Hos 7:2Ps 10:11Deut 33:26-29Isa 43:25Jer 17:1Jer 31:34Ps 47:4

Amos 8:8⁸Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the Nile River, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:5Hos 4:3Jer 46:8Ps 18:7Isa 5:25Amos 8:10Dan 9:26Hag 2:6-7Hos 10:5Isa 24:19-20

Amos 8:9⁹In that day,” says the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 15:33Matt 27:45Jer 15:9Luke 23:44Matt 24:29Mic 3:6Amos 5:8Isa 59:9-10Isa 13:10Job 5:14

Amos 8:10¹⁰I will turn your festivals into funerals and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:26Zech 12:10Ezek 7:18Jer 48:37Job 20:23Hos 2:11Isa 15:2-3Luke 7:12-131 Sam 25:36-382 Sam 13:28-31

Amos 8:11¹¹Be certain of this, the time is coming,” says the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:1Ps 74:92 Chr 15:31 Sam 28:6Ezek 7:26Matt 9:36Mic 3:61 Sam 28:15Isa 30:20-21Isa 5:6

Amos 8:12¹²People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a message from the Lord, but they will not find any.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:7-102 Tim 3:6-7Dan 12:4Matt 12:30Matt 24:23-26Prov 14:6Rom 9:31-33

Amos 8:13¹³In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 2:3Lam 1:18Lam 2:21Deut 32:25Isa 40:30Isa 41:17-20Jer 48:18Lam 2:10Ps 63:1Zech 9:17

Amos 8:14¹⁴These are the ones who now take oaths in the name of the sinful idol goddess of Samaria. They vow, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as your beloved one lives, O Beer Sheba!’ But they will fall down and not get up again.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:51 Kgs 12:28-29Deut 9:21Acts 9:21 Kgs 12:321 Kgs 13:22-341 Kgs 14:161 Kgs 16:242 Chr 36:162 Kgs 10:29