These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Amos 8
Tanakh 14 verses
- 1 Thus showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.
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And He said: ‘, what seest thou?’ And I said: ‘A basket of summer fruit.’ Then said unto me: The end is come upon My people ; I will not again pardon them any more.
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Amos 7:8 Lamentations 4:18 Jeremiah 24:1-3 Micah 7:1 Jeremiah 1:11-14 Deuteronomy 26:1-4 Ezekiel 3:7 Zechariah 5:2 Ezekiel 8:6 Isaiah 28:4 Jeremiah 5:31 Ezekiel 8:12 Ezekiel 7:6 Zechariah 1:18-21 Ezekiel 3:10 Zechariah 5:5-6 Ezekiel 12:23 Ezekiel 7:2-3 2 Samuel 16:1-2 Ezekiel 8:17 Ezekiel 29:8 Jeremiah 40:10 - 3 And the songs of the palace shall be wailings in that day, Saith ; The dead bodies shall be many; In every place silence shall be cast.
- 4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow the needy, And destroy the poor of the land,
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Saying: ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the , that we may set forth corn? Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances of deceit;
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That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the refuse of the corn?’
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- 7 The hath sworn by the pride of : Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, And every one mourn that dwelleth therein? Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; And it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of .
- 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, Saith , That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in the clear day.
- 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, And baldness upon every head; And I will make it as the mourning for an only son, And the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Behold, the days come, saith , That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of .
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And they shall wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They shall run to and fro to seek the of , And shall not find it.
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- 13 In that day shall the fair virgins And the young men faint for thirst.
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They that swear by the sin of , And say: ‘As thy , O , liveth’; And: ‘As the way of Beer-sheba liveth’; Even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
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Amos 5:5 Acts 9:2 1 Kings 12:28-29 Deuteronomy 9:21 Acts 19:23 Jeremiah 51:64 Zephaniah 1:5 Acts 19:9 2 Kings 10:29 Acts 24:14 1 Kings 13:22-34 Isaiah 43:17 1 Kings 14:16 1 Kings 12:32 Proverbs 29:1 Psalm 36:12 Psalm 140:10 Deuteronomy 33:11 Hosea 10:5 Acts 18:25 Hosea 13:2 Jeremiah 25:27 Hosea 4:15 Hosea 13:16 Hosea 8:5-6 1 Kings 16:24 Amos 5:2 2 Chronicles 36:16