The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

8 aThis is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, b“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, c“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

d“The end1 has come upon my people Israel;

I will never again pass by them.

3  eThe songs of the temple2 fshall become wailings3 in that day,”

declares the Lord God.

g“So many dead bodies!”

“They are thrown everywhere!”

h“Silence!”

4  Hear this, iyou who trample on the needy

and bring the poor of the land to an end,

5  saying, “When will jthe new moon be over,

that we may sell grain?

And kthe Sabbath,

that we may offer wheat for sale,

that we may make lthe ephah small and the shekel4 great

and deal deceitfully with false balances,

6  that we may buy the poor for msilver

and the needy for a pair of sandals

and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

7  The Lord has sworn by nthe pride of Jacob:

“Surely oI will never forget any of their deeds.

8  pShall not the land tremble on this account,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it,

qand all of it rise like the Nile,

and be tossed about rand sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”