English Revised Version

Amos 8:6-10 English Revised Version (ERV)

6. that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.

7. The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

9. 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.

10. 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 for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.