1 T his is what the Lord God showed me: There was a basket of summer fruit.

Thus the Lord God showed to me, and behold, a basket of summer fruit.

2 A nd the Lord said, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel. I will not change My mind again about punishing them.

And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord to me, The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by and spare them any more.

3 T he songs of the king’s house will become loud cries of sorrow on that day,” says the Lord God. “There will be many dead bodies. In every place they will be thrown out without a word.”

And 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 forth in silence.

4 H ear this, you who crush under foot those who are in need, to put an end to the poor of the land.

Hear this, O you who would swallow up and trample down the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail and come to an end,

5 Y ou say, “When will the New Moon be over, so that we may buy grain? When will the Day of Rest be over, so that we may open the store and sell grain? Then we will make the basket smaller and the weight bigger, and we will lie about the weight.

Saying, When will the New Moon festival be past that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel great and falsifying the scales by deceit,

6 W e will buy the poor for money, and those in need for shoes. And we will sell the part of the grain that is of no worth.”

That we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat ?

7 T he Lord has promised by the pride of Jacob, “For sure I will never forget anything they have done.

The Lord has sworn by the Glory and Pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.

8 W ill not the land shake because of this? Will not everyone who lives in it be filled with sorrow? All of it will rise up like the Nile. It will be troubled, and will fall like the Nile River of Egypt.

Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it shall rise like the river, all of it, and it shall be tossed about and sink back again to normal level, as does the Nile of Egypt.

9 O n that day,” says the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon. I will make the earth dark in the daytime.

And in that day, says the Lord God, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the broad daylight.

10 I will turn your special suppers into times of sorrow, and all your songs into songs of sorrow. I will make all of you wear cloth made from hair, and cut all the hair from your heads. I will fill that time with sorrow, as if an only son had died. And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation, and I will cause sackcloth to be put upon all loins and baldness shall come on every head; and I will make that time as the mourning for an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day.

11 “ The days are coming,” says the Lord God, “when I will send a time upon the land when the people will be very hungry. They will not be hungry for bread or thirsty for water, but they will be hungry to hear the Words of the Lord.

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

12 P eople will go from sea to sea, and from the north to the east. They will go from place to place to look for the Word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

And shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, but shall not find it.

13 O n that day the beautiful, pure, young women and the young men will lose their strength and fall because of thirst.

In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

14 A s for those who swear by the false gods of Samaria, saying, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall and never rise again.”

Those who swear by Ashimah or the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your god, O Dan! and, By the life of the way of Beersheba, they shall fall and rise no more.