Amos 8

1Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.Cross-references: Amos 7:1 · Amos 7:4 · Amos 7:7

2He 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.Cross-references: Deut 26:1 · 2Sam 16:1 · Isa 28:4 · Jer 1:11 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 24:1 · +16 more

3The 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.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · Ps 39:9 · Isa 37:36 · Jer 9:21 · Jer 22:18 · Hos 10:5 · +10 more

4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,Cross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 14:4 · Ps 56:1 · Ps 140:12 · Prov 30:14 · +10 more

5saying, ‘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;Cross-references: Ex 20:8 · Lev 19:36 · Num 10:10 · Num 28:11 · Deut 25:13 · 2Ki 4:23 · +13 more

6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”Cross-references: Lev 25:39 · Neh 5:1 · Neh 5:8 · Joel 3:3 · Joel 3:6 · Amos 2:6 · +1 more

7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.Cross-references: Ex 17:16 · Deut 33:26 · 1Sam 15:2 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 47:4 · Ps 68:34 · +8 more

8Won’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.Cross-references: Ps 18:7 · Ps 60:2 · Ps 114:3 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 24:19 · +13 more

9It 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.Cross-references: Ex 10:21 · Job 5:14 · Isa 13:10 · Isa 29:9 · Isa 59:9 · Jer 15:9 · +9 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

10I 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.Cross-references: Deut 16:14 · 1Sam 25:36 · 2Sam 13:28 · Job 3:5 · Job 20:23 · Isa 15:2 · +14 more

11Behold, 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 3:1 · 1Sam 28:6 · 1Sam 28:15 · 2Chr 15:3 · Ps 74:9 · Isa 5:6 · +4 more

12They 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.Cross-references: Prov 14:6 · Ezek 20:3 · Ezek 20:31 · Dan 12:4 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 12:30 · +4 more

13In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.Cross-references: Deut 32:25 · Ps 63:1 · Ps 144:12 · Isa 40:30 · Isa 41:17 · Jer 48:18 · +5 more

14Those 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.”Cross-references: Deut 9:21 · Deut 33:11 · 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 12:32 · 1Ki 13:22 · 1Ki 14:16 · +22 more