Amos 8:3-5

The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

3 e The songs of the temple 1 f shall become wailings 2 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 3 great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,

  1. Cross References
    Amos 5:23
    Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 47:2
    Thus says the Lord : Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
  3. Cross References
    Amos 6:9
    And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.
  4. Cross References
    Amos 6:10
    And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still anyone with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Silence! We must not mention the name of the Lord.
    Jeremiah 16:4
    They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
    Jeremiah 16:6
    Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 14:4
    Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord ?
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 28:11
    At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
  7. Cross References
    Nehemiah 13:15 - 16
    In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 45:10
    You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
    Micah 6:10 - 11
    Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
    Hosea 12:7
    A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
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