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Amos 8

1 Against the rulers of Israél 7 The Lord sweareth 11 The famine of the word of God.
1.Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me, and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2.And he said, Amós, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer afruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israél, I will pass by them no more.
3.And the songs of the Temple shal be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies shalbe in every place: they shal cast them forth with bsilence.
4.Hear this, ô ye that cswallow up the poor, that ye may make the needy of the land to fail,
5.Saying, When will the dnew month be gone, that we may sell corn? & the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, & make ethe Epháh small, & the shekel great, & falsify the weights by deceit?
6.That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.
7.The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jaakób, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8.Shal not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn, that dwelleth therein? and it shal rise up wholly as a flood, and it shalbe cast out, and fdrowned as by the flood of Egypt.
9.And in that day, saith the Lord God, I will even cause the gsun 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 sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11.Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord,
12.And they shal wander from sea to sea, and from the North even unto the East shal they run to and fro to seek the hword of the Lord, and shal not find it.
13.In that day shal the fair virgins and the young men perish for thirst.
14.They that swear by the sin iof Samaria, and that say, Thy God, ô Dan, liveth, and kthe manner of Beer-shéba liveth, even they shal fall, and never rise up again.

Notes

2-a.
Which signifies the ripeness of their sins and the readiness of God’s judgements.
3-b.
There shall be none left to mourn for them.
4-c.
By staying the sale of food and necessary things which you have gotten into your own hands, and so cause the poor to spend quickly that little that they have, and at length for necessity to become your slaves.
5-d.
When the dearth was once come, they were so greedy of gain, that they thought the holy day to be an hindrance unto them.
5-e.
That is, the measure small and the price great.
8-f.
That is, the inhabitants of the land shall be drown, as Nilus drowns many when it overflows.
9-g.
In the middes of their prosperity I will send great affliction.
12-h.
Whereby he shows that they shall not only perish in body, but also in soul for lack of God’s word, which is the food thereof.
14-i.
For the idolaters did use to swear by their idols: which here he calls their sin, as the papists yet do by theirs.
14-k.
That is, the common manner of worshipping and the service or religion there used.