[1] This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw 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 to my people
Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin. [3] And the songs of
the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God:
great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put
them out without a word. [4] Give ear to this, you who are crushing the
poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the
land, [5] Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade
in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce
of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading
falsely with scales of deceit; [6] Getting the poor for silver, and him who
is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste
parts of the grain. [7] The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob,
Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works. [8] Will not the land be
shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all
of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go
down again like the River of Egypt. [9] And it will come about in that day,
says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the
day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight: [10] Your feasts will be
turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will
be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will
make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter
day. [11] See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send
times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but
for hearing the words of the Lord. [12] And they will go wandering from sea
to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in
search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it. [13] In that day
the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water. [14]
Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of
your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go
down, never again to be lifted up.
