Amos 8:5-14 ▼

5 saying, “When will the New Moon pass, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, that we may trade wheat, making small the ephah and making large the shekel, and cheating with scales of deceit,

6 to acquire the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the chaff with the wheat?”

7 YHWH has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “I will not forget to the end any of their works.

8 Over this, will the land not quake, and all dwelling in it will mourn? And all of it will rise up like the River and it will surge and subside like the River of Egypt.

9 And it will come to pass in that day, a declaration of the Lord YHWH, that I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will bring darkness to the earth in the daytime light.

10 And I will turn your? feasts to mourning, and all your? songs to lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth over all loins, and baldness on every head, and I will set it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day most bitter!

11 Behold, the days are coming, a declaration of the Lord YHWH, and I will send a famine on the land: Not a famine of bread and not a thirst for water, but rather of hearing the words of YHWH.

12 And they will wander from sea to sea, and they will roam about from the north to the east, seeking the word of YHWH, and they will not find it.

13 On that day, the beautiful virgins will faint—and the young men—from thirst.

14 Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, and having said, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and ‘as lives the way of Beersheba,’ they will fall, and they will not rise again!”