8
1 Thus
the Lord GOD
showed me: behold,
a basket of
summer fruit.
2 He said, “Amos, what do you
see?”
I said, “A basket
of summer fruit.”
Then the LORD said
to me,
“The end has
come on my
people Israel.
I will not
again pass by
them any more.
3 The
songs of the
temple will be
wailing in that
day,” says the
Lord GOD.
“The dead bodies
will be many.
In every place
they will throw
them out with
silence.
4 Hear
this, you who
desire to swallow
up the needy,
and cause the
poor of the land
to fail,
5 saying, ‘When
will the new
moon be gone,
that we may
sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
that we may market
wheat,
making the ephah
small, and the
shekel
large,
and dealing falsely with
balances of deceit;
6 that
we may buy
the poor for
silver,
and the needy
for a pair of
sandals,
and sell
the sweepings with
the wheat?’ ”
7 The
LORD has sworn
by the pride
of Jacob,
“Surely I will
never forget any
of their works.
8 Won’t the land
tremble for this,
and everyone
mourn who dwells
in it?
Yes, it will rise
up wholly like
the River;
and it will
be stirred up
and sink again, like
the River of
Egypt.
9 It
will happen in
that day,” says
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 I
will turn your
feasts into mourning,
and all your
songs into
lamentation;
and I will
make you wear
sackcloth on all
your bodies,
and baldness on
every head.
I will make
it like
the mourning for
an only son,
and its end like
a bitter day.
11 Behold,
the days come,”
says the Lord
GOD,
“that I will
send a famine
in the land,
not a famine
of bread,
nor a thirst
for water,
but of hearing
the LORD’s words.
12 They
will wander from
sea to sea,
and from the
north even to
the east;
they will run
back and forth
to seek the
LORD’s word,
and will not
find it.
13 In
that day the
beautiful virgins
and the young men
will faint for
thirst.
14 Those who
swear by the sin
of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your
god, Dan, lives,’
and, ‘As the
way of Beersheba
lives,’
they will fall,
and never rise
up again.”