Amos Chapter 8
Ayo, the Lord God just peeped me a basket filled with summer fruit. Major vibes.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
He was like, “Amos, what do you peep?” So I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord literally said, “The end is coming for my crew in Israel; I'm over it, no cap.”
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
The temple vibes are gonna be pure howls that day, says the Lord God: so many peeps laid out, it's gonna be all silent vibes.
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: {there shall be} many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast {them} forth with silence. {shall be howlings: Heb. shall howl} {with...: Heb. be silent}
Yo, listen up, you who are taking advantage of the needy just to make them struggle harder, that’s mad sus.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
They’re like, “When does the new moon end so we can move corn? And the Sabbath, so we can hustle wheat, shrinking the ephah and inflating the shekel, rigging the scales like it’s nothing?”
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? {new...: or, month} {set...: Heb. open} {falsifying...: Heb. perverting the balances of deceit}
They wanna snag the poor for silver and needy folks for fresh kicks; yeah, and flip that bad wheat?
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; {yea}, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
The Lord is literally swearing by Jacob's greatness, “I won't forget what they've done, periodt.”
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Shouldn't the land shake over this? Everyone living there will be in mourning; it’ll rise like a flood and get tossed out like Egypt's flood.
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as {by} the flood of Egypt.
And on that day, says the Lord God, I’ll make the sun dip at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
I’ll turn your parties into grief and all your jams into sad vibes; sackcloth on everybody and bald heads everywhere, like mourning for the only child, and it’s gonna hit hard.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up 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.
Listen up, days are coming, says the Lord God, when I’ll send a famine across the land, not for food or water, but for catching the Lord’s words—straight facts.
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 words of the LORD:
They’ll be roaming from sea to sea, north to east, running around trying to score the word of the Lord, but it’s gonna be ghosting them.
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find {it}.
On that day, the baddies and the young bucks will be fainting from thirst, fr.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Those who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, “Your god, O Dan, is alive,” and “The vibe of Beer-sheba is lit,” even they are gonna fall and never rise again.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. {manner: Heb. way}