OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Amos 8:5

saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?

And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,

making the ephah ^† small, and the shekel ^† large,

and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Amos 8:5 in context

Amos 8:2–8

He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the LORD said to me,

“The end has come on my people Israel.

I will not again pass by them any more.

The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD.

“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,

and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Selected verse

saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?

And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,

making the ephah ^† small, and the shekel ^† large,

and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

that we may buy the poor for silver,

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob,

“Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Won’t the land tremble for this,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;

and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

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