¹ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. ² He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
“The end has come on my people Israel. 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, ⁵ saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
making the ephah¹ small, and the shekel² large, ⁶ that we may buy the poor for silver, 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,
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; ⁹ It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD,
“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, ¹⁰ I will turn your feasts into mourning, ¹¹ Behold, the days come,” says the Lord GOD,
“that I will send a famine in the land, ¹² They will wander from sea to sea, ¹³ In that day the beautiful virgins ¹⁴ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,