Amos 8:1-9

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^(D)“The end^[a] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.
^3 (E)The songs of the temple^{[b] (F)}shall become wailings^[c] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
^(G)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
^(H)“Silence!”

⁴ Hear this, ^(I)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
⁵ saying, “When will ^(J)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And ^(K)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make ^(L)the ephah small and the shekel^[d] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
⁶ that we may buy the poor for ^(M)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

⁷ The Lord has sworn by ^(N)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^(O)I will never forget any of their deeds.
^8 (P)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
    and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(Q)and all of it rise like the Nile,
    and be tossed about ^(R)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

⁹ “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    ^(S)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.