Amos 8:1-3

English Standard Version

The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

8 ^(A)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. ²And he said, ^(B)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, ^(C)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

^(D)“The end^[a] has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
³^(E)The songs of the temple^[b] ^(F)shall become wailings^[c] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
^(G)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
^(H)“Silence!”

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Footnotes

Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
Amos 8:3 Or palace
Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail

Amos 8:11-14

English Standard Version

¹¹“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when ^(A)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    ^(B)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹²^(C)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    ^(D)but they shall not find it.

¹³^(E)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall ^(F)faint for thirst.
¹⁴Those who swear by ^(G)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As ^(H)the Way of ^(I)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”