(A)Shall the land not tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
All of it shall swell like [a]the River,
Heave and subside
(B)Like the River of Egypt.

“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
(C)“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in [b]broad daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into (D)mourning,
(E)And all your songs into lamentation;
(F)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:8 The Nile; some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg., Syr., Vg. River (cf. 9:5); MT the light
  2. Amos 8:9 Lit. a day of light

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