旧约 - 阿摩司书(Amos)第8章

This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
"What do you see, Amos?" he asked. "A basket of ripe fruit," I answered. Then the LORD said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies--flung everywhere! Silence!"
Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
saying, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?"--skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget anything they have done.
"Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.
"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
I will turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
"The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land--not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
"In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.
They who swear by the shame of Samaria, or say, 'As surely as your god lives, O Dan,' or, 'As surely as the god of Beersheba lives'--they will fall, never to rise again."
阿摩司书第八章   第 8 章 

  摩 8:5-6> 怎么这些人虽守节期,心却想着其他东西;我对神的态度当然不会如此──真的?你问。 

  8:5-6 这些商人都遵守节期,但并非出于真心。他们迫不及待地赚钱,几乎连圣日及安息日还未过去就已等不及了。他们内心所关注的,只是如何致富,甚至不惜采用诡诈的手段,如大斗入、小斗出,或出售已经坏了的麦子。你是每星期至少抽出一天休息及敬拜神,还是以赚钱为首要目标?即使你抽空来到神面前,你的心又是否真的在敬拜?宗教于你是否成了一切不道德行径的虚饰? 

  摩 8:11-13> 虽听到神的话语,他们却不改变;今天有很多人连神是谁也不晓得,我可以为他们做什么? 

  8:11-13 虽然有阿摩司这样的先知不断把神的话语宣告出来,但百姓却无动于衷。正因他们冷漠的态度,神说连他们聆听祂话语的机会也要取走。今天,我们已拥有神的话语──圣经,但不少人仍在圣经以外到处寻求生命的出路。所以,你应该把他们引到圣经中来,引用各处针对他们的需要及困难的经文,使他们得着帮助。神的话语随时可用。让我们都来帮助别人认识神的话语,免得时候到了,他们再没有认识神的机会了。──《灵修版圣经注释》