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The Prophet Amos

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- Kapitel 8 -

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Yahweh showed me in a vision a basket full of ripe fruit.
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He asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A basket of very ripe fruit.” He said, “That indicates that it is almost the end for my Israelite people. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
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Soon the people will be wailing instead of singing in the temple. There will be corpses everywhere, and people will say nothing as they remove them. These things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!”
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It is as though you people were trampling on the needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
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You habitually say, “We wish that the new moon festival would end soon, in order that we may be allowed to sell our grain. We wish that the Sabbath would end soon, in order that we may again be permitted to sell our wheat. When we sell it, we can charge a big price for it, and we can cheat people by using scales that do not weigh correctly.
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We will sell wheat that is no good. Those who are needy and poor and who do not have money to buy things, we will make them our slaves by buying them with the little amount of silver with which we could buy a pair of sandals!”
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Yahweh has declared, “As I live, I, whom you should worship: I solemnly declare that I will not forget the evil things that you have done.
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Because of those evil things, your country will certainly soon tremble, and all of you will mourn. It will be as though it will repeatedly rise and fall like the Nile River that gets full of water and overflows its banks and then settles back into its riverbed.
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At the time when I punish my people, I will cause the sun to set at noontime, and the entire earth will be dark in the daytime.
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I will cause your religious celebrations to become times when you mourn; instead of singing, everyone will be weeping. Because of what I will do, all of you will wear rough sackcloth and shave your heads to show that you are sorrowing. I will cause that time to be like when people mourn after an only son has died. All of you will be very sad all of that time.”
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And Yahweh our God says this: “It will soon be the time when I will cause something to be very scarce throughout the country. But it will not be a time when there is no food or water; it will instead be a time when there will be no messages from me for anyone to hear.
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People will stagger from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and wander from the north to the east, searching for a message from me, but there will not be any.
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At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because they will be very thirsty.
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Those who make oaths using the name of their shameful god of Samaria, and those who solemnly promise to do something using the name of the god of Dan, and those who swear using the name of the god of Beersheba, they will all die; they will never get up again.”
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Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
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He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
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The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
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Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah(a) small, and the shekel (b) large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
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that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
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The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
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Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
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It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
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I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
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Behold, the days come,” says 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 LORD’s words.
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They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word, and will not find it.
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In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
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Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

Fußnoten

(a)8:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
(b)8:5 a normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
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