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# Amos 8

Amos 8 is chapter 8 of 9 in the Book of Amos. Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Under the figure of a hook, which bringeth down the fruit, the approaching desolation of Israel is foreshewed for their avarice and injustices.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Amos 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. These things the Lord has revealed to me. And behold, a hook to draw down fruit.
2. And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A hook to draw down fruit.” And the Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel. I will no longer pass through them.”
3. And the hinges of the temple will creak in that day, says the Lord God. Many will die. Silence will be thrown away in all places.
4. Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.
5. You say, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the Sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales,
6. in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?”
7. The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works.
8. Will not the earth shudder over this, and all its inhabitants mourn, and all rise up like a river, and be cast out, and flow away like the river of Egypt?
9. And it will be in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun will decline at midday, and I will cause the earth to become dark on the day of light.
10. And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your hymns into lamentation. And I will put sackcloth over every one of your backs, and baldness on every head. And I will begin it like the mourning for an only-begotten son, and complete it like a bitter day.
11. Behold, the days pass, says the Lord, and I will send a famine on the earth: not a famine of bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord.
12. And they will move even from sea to sea, and from the North all the way to the East. They will wander around seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it.
13. In that day, beautiful virgins, and young men, will fail because of thirst.
14. They swear by the offense of Samaria, and they say, “As your God lives, Dan,” and “The way of Beer-sheba lives.” And they will fall, and they will not rise up any more.

## Amos 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce uncinus pomorum.
2. Et dixit: Quid tu vides, Amos? Et dixi: Uncinum pomorum. Et dixit Dominus ad me: Venit finis super populum meum Israël; non adjiciam ultra ut pertranseam eum.
3. Et stridebunt cardines templi in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: multi morientur; in omni loco projicietur silentium.
4. Audite hoc, qui conteritis pauperem, et deficere facitis egenos terræ,
5. dicentes: Quando transibit mensis, et venundabimus merces? et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum, ut imminuamus mensuram, et augeamus siclum, et supponamus stateras dolosas,
6. ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperes pro calceamentis, et quisquilias frumenti vendamus?
7. Juravit Dominus in superbiam Jacob: Si oblitus fuero usque ad finem omnia opera eorum.
8. Numquid super isto non commovebitur terra, et lugebit omnis habitator ejus, et ascendet quasi fluvius universus, et ejicicetur, et defluet, quasi rivus Ægypti?
9. Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus Deus: occidet sol in meridie, et tenebrescere faciam terram in die luminis:
10. et convertam festivitates vestras in luctum, et omnia cantica vestra in planctum, et inducam super omne dorsum vestrum saccum, et super omne caput calvitium: et ponam eam quasi luctum unigeniti, et novissima ejus quasi diem amarum.
11. Ecce dies veniunt, dicet Dominus, et mittam famem in terram: non famem panis, neque sitim aquæ, sed audiendi verbum Domini.
12. Et commovebuntur a mari usque ad mare, et ab aquilone usque ad orientem: circuibunt quærentes verbum Domini, et non invenient.
13. In die illa deficient virgines pulchræ et adolescentes in siti,
14. qui jurant in delicto Samariæ, et dicunt: Vivit Deus tuus, Dan, et vivit via Bersabee; et cadent, et non resurgent ultra.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2409: Respect for Persons and Their Goods ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2269: Respect for Human Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2835: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Jul 7, 2028 (computed): Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Amos 8:4-6, 9-12
- Sun, Sep 24, 2028 (computed): Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Amos 8:4-7

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).