#amos 8

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AMOS S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 8

Tuesday, 6/23/26

SCRIPTURE:

"I, the Lord, won't forget any of this, though you take great pride in your ancestor Jacob." ~ Amos 8:7 "I, the Lord, also promise you a terrible shortage, but not of food and water. "You will hunger and thirst to hear My message. "You will search everywhere — from north to south, from east to west. "You will go all over the earth, seeking a message from Me, the Lord. "But you won't find one." ~ Amos 8:11-12

OBSERVATION:

Like a refrain - "I, the Lord..." throughout this chapter...

Four times over fourteen verses...

Five if I count, "...Me, the Lord" in verse twelve...

Like I need reminding...

...well, maybe I do...

APPLICATION:

Take no pride in anything of mine...

Quit searching - 

The Lord is at hand...

Jesus is near...

...right here...

Simply turn around - 

that's the meaning of repent

to turn from sin 

and turn to Jesus

PRAYER:

Lord God Almighty - please forgive my failures to recognize and acknowledge Your Lordship over my life - to allow Your Lordship in my life... Thank You for forgiving and forgetting my sin when I confess and claim Your grace and mercy through Jesus... May I remember to stop where I am, stop doing what I'm doing, stop searching and realize You are never far away, always at hand, and only where I am not looking - In Jesus's Name, and for Your glory and honor and worshipful praise... 

Yours, in Him...𝖌

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Day 339: Amos 8 // 'עמוס ח

Today is the 40th day of the Omer.

(Link to full chapter text on Sefaria)

Amos - Chapter 8 - Nach Yomi - OU Torah

(No, the title of this chapter synopsis does not contain a typographical error. Keep reading.) In a vision, G-d showed Amos a basket of late

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The Basket of Ripe Fruit

1 Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit. 2 And He saith, ‘What art thou seeing, Amos?’ and I say, ‘A basket of summer-fruit.’ And Jehovah saith unto me: ‘The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it. 3 And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw — hush!

4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

7 Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: ‘I forget not for ever any of their works.

8 For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.

9 And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

10 And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

11 Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.

12 And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find.

13 In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.

14 Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen — and rise not again!’ — Amos 8 | Young's Literal Translation (YLT) The Holy Bible: Young’s Literal Translation is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 6:13; Genesis 21:16; Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 13:40; Numbers 28:11; Deuteronomy 33:26; Deuteronomy 33:29; 1 Samuel 3:1; 1 Kings 12:28-29; 2 Chronicles 15:3; Job 5:14; Job 24:4; Psalm 14:4; Psalm 18:7; Psalm 60:2; Proverbs 29:18; Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 41:17; Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 24:3; Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 20:3; Amos 2:6; Amos 3:9; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:16; Amos 7:17; Matthew 24:29

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