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| 8:1 | Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| 8:4 | Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 8:7 | Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works. |
| 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. |
| 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, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 8:13 | In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst. |
| 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!' |
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| 8:1 | The LORDE God shewed me me this vision: and beholde, there was a maude with sommer frute. |
| 8:2 | And he sayde: Amos, what seist thou? I answered: a maude with sommer frute. Then sayde the LORDE vnto me: the ende commeth vpon my people of Israel, I wil nomore ouersee them. |
| 8:3 | In that daye shall the songes off the temple be turned in to sorow, sayeth the LORDE God. Many deed bodyes shal lye in euery place, & be cast forth secretly. |
| 8:4 | Heare this, O ye yt oppresse the poore, and destroye the nedy in ye londe, sayenge: |
| 8:5 | Whan will the new moneth be gone, that we maye sell vytale, and ye Sabbath, that we maye haue scarcenesse of corne: to make the bu?shel lesse, and the Sycle greater? |
| 8:6 | We shall set vp false waightes, yt we maye get the poore vnder vs with their money, and the nedy also for shues: yee let vs sell the chaffe for corne. |
| 8:7 | The LORDE hath sworne agaynst the pryde of Iacob: these workes of theirs will I neuer forget. |
| 8:8 | Shal not the londe tremble, and all they that dwell therin, mourne for this? Shal not their destruccion come vpon them like a water streame, & flowe ouer the, as the floude of Egipte? |
| 8:9 | At the same tyme (sayeth the LORDE God) I shall cause ye Sone to go downe at noone, and the londe to be darcke in the cleare daye. |
| 8:10 | Youre hye feastes will I turne to sorow, and youre songes to mournynge: I wil brynge sack cloth vpo all backes, & baldnes vpo euery heade: yee soch a mournynge wil I sende them, as is made vpon an only begotten sonne, and they shall haue a miserable ende. |
| 8:11 | Beholde, the tyme commeth (sayeth the LORDE God) yt I shal sende an huger in to ye earth: not the hunger of bred, ner the thyrst of water: but an hunger to heare the worde off the LORDE: |
| 8:12 | so that they shal go from the one see to the other, yee from ye north vnto ye east, runnynge aboute to seke the worde of ye LORDE, and shal not fynde it. |
| 8:13 | In that tyme, shal the fayre virgins and the yonge men perish for thyrst, |
| 8:14 | yee euen they that sweare in the offence off Samaria, and saye: as truly as thy God lyueth at Dan, and as truly as ye God lyueth at Bersaba. These shal fall, and neuer ryse vp agayne. |
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