Holy Scripture

Amos 8:8

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 7, 8.) The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble concerning this, and every inhabitant mourn? And it shall rise up wholly like the River, and it shall be driven out and fall like the River of Egypt. Septuagint: The Lord has sworn by the p…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Amos

Source: Septuagint

Original

8And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not everyone who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.

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In context

6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

7The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

— Amos 8:8 —

9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:

10and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.

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