Amos 8

Thomson^{(i) 1} So the Lord, Lord pointed out to me, and lo! a fowler's basket. ² And he said, Amos, what dost thou see? And when I said, A fowler's basket, the Lord said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel. I will no more permit them to transgress. ³ In that day indeed the vaulted cielings of this temple shall resound with cries of Woe, saith the Lord, Lord. Multitudes are fallen every where, I will bring on silence. ⁴ [p] Hear this, I beseech you, ye who every morning oppress the needy, and by your tyranny drive the poor from the land, saying, ⁵ "When will the new moon be over that we may buy? And the sabbaths, that we may open store? to make the measure small, and the weight heavy, and to make the balance uneven, ⁶ that we may purchase the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, when from every kind of product we shall have made gain. ⁷ The Lord sweareth, in opposition to this arrogance of Jacob, that none of these works of yours shall ever be forgotten. ⁸ Now for these things shall not the land be troubled and every inhabitant therein mourn? Destruction indeed shall swell like a river, and flow down like the river of Egypt. ⁹ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, Lord, That the sun shall set at noon day, and the light on that day shall be darkened on the earth. ¹⁰ And I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into songs of lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth on every loin and baldness on every head, and cause a mourning for him like that for a beloved, and for them with him, like that of a day of sorrow. ¹¹ Behold days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will send a famine against the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water; but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord. ¹² And they shall fluctuate as water from sea to sea, and run to and fro; from north to east seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. ¹³ In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint for thirst. ¹⁴ They who swear by the atonement of Samaria, and they who say, Thy God, Dan, liveth: thy God, Bersabee, liveth, shall indeed fall and shall never rise any more.