[1] Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. [2] And
he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit."
Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will
never again pass by them. [3] The songs of the temple shall become wailings
in that day," says the Lord GOD; "the dead bodies shall be many; in every
place they shall be cast out in silence." [4] Hear this, you who trample
upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end, [5] saying, "When
will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we
may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel
great, and deal deceitfully with false balances, [6] that we may buy the
poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of
the wheat?" [7] The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will
never forget any of their deeds. [8] Shall not the land tremble on this
account, and every one mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the
Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?" [9] "And
on that day," says the Lord GOD, "I will make the sun go down at noon, and
darken the earth in broad daylight. [10] I will turn your feasts into
mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon
all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for
an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day. [11] "Behold, the days
are coming," says the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land; not
a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the
LORD. [12] They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they
shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find
it. [13] "In that day the fair virgins and the young men shall faint for
thirst. [14] Those who swear by Ash'imah of Sama'ria, and say, `As thy god
lives, O Dan,' and, `As the way of Beer-sheba lives,' they shall fall, and
never rise again."
