微读圣经

Fourth Vision: A Basket of Summer Fruit

1The Lord God showed me this: A basket of summer fruit.

2He asked me, “What do you see, Amos? ” Am 7:8

I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Jr 24:3

The Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; Ezk 7:2-3,6 I will no longer spare them. Am 7:8

3In that day the temple Or palace songs Am 5:23; 6:4-5 will become wailing” Am 5:16 — this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Is 34:3; Jr 33:5; Nah 3:3 Silence! ” Am 6:10

4Hear this, you who trample on the needy Am 2:7; 5:11-12

and do away with the poor of the land, Is 10:2

5asking, “When will the New Moon be over

so we may sell grain, Nm 28:11; 2Kg 4:23

and the Sabbath,

so we may market wheat? Ex 31:13-17

We can reduce the measure

while increasing the price Lit reduce the ephah and make the shekel great

and cheat with dishonest scales. Dt 25:13-15; Pr 20:23; Hs 12:7

6We can buy the poor with silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals Am 2:6

and even sell the chaff! ”

7The Lord has sworn Am 4:2; 6:8 by the Pride of Jacob: = the Lord or the promised land Dt 33:26,29; Ps 47:4

I will never forget all their deeds. Ps 10:11; Hs 7:2; 8:13

8Because of this, won’t the land quake Ps 18:7; 60:2; Is 5:25; Am 1:1

and all who dwell in it mourn? Hs 4:3

All of it will rise like the Nile; Jr 46:7-8

it will surge and then subside

like the Nile in Egypt. Am 9:5

9And in that day —

this is the declaration of the Lord God —

I will make the sun go down at noon; Is 13:10; Ezk 32:7; Jl 2:10,31

I will darken the land in the daytime. Is 59:9-10; Am 4:13; 5:8; Mt 27:45

10I will turn your feasts into mourning Jb 20:23; Am 5:21

and all your songs into lamentation; Lm 5:15; Hs 2:11; Jms 4:9

I will cause everyone Lit every loin to wear sackcloth Ezk 7:18

and every head to be shaved. Is 22:12; Jr 48:37; Ezk 7:18

I will make that grief

like mourning for an only son Zch 12:10-14

and its outcome like a bitter day.

11Hear this! The days are coming —

this is the declaration of the Lord God —

when I will send a famine through the land:

not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,

but of hearing the words of the Lord. Mc 3:6-7

12People will stagger from sea to sea

and roam from north to east,

seeking the word of the Lord, Ezk 20:3,31

but they will not find it.

13In that day the beautiful young women, Lm 1:18; 2:21

the young men also, will faint from thirst. Is 41:17; Hs 2:3

14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria Hs 8:5

and say, “As your god lives, Dan,” 1Kg 12:28-29

or “As the way LXX reads god Or power of Beer-sheba lives” Am 5:5 —

they will fall, never to rise again. Am 5:2; Jr 25:27