Amos 8
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Amos 8:4-10

4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

5asking, “When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.

6We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”

7The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds.

8Because of this, won’t the land quake and all who dwell in it mourn? All of it will rise like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

9And in that day — this is the declaration of the Lord God  — I will make the sun go down at noon; I will darken the land in the daytime.

10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

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