The Bible Study Podcast, episode 757.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Amos with chapter 8.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We continue on with one of these last

chapters here of Amos. Chapter 8 is labeled this, a basket of ripe fruit. Chapter 8. This is what the

sovereign Lord showed me. A basket of ripe fruit. What do you see, Amos? He asked. A basket of

ripe fruit, I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, the time is ripe for my people Israel.

I will spare them no longer.

In that day, declares the sovereign Lord.

The songs in the temple will turn to wailing.

Many, many bodies flung everywhere.

Silence. Hear this, you who trampled the needy

and do away with the poor of the land, saying, when will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain,

and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat, skimping on the measure, boosting the price,

and cheating with dishonest scales,

buying the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings

with the wheat. The Lord has sworn by himself, the pride of Jacob, I will never forget anything

they have done. Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn?

The whole land will rise like the Nile. It will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.

In that day, declares the sovereign Lord, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your

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