Amos 7:14–8:7

14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah:

“I was no prophet,

Nor was I na son of a prophet,

But I was a osheepbreeder

And a tender of sycamore fruit.

15 Then the Lord took me 1as I followed the flock,

And the Lord said to me,

‘Go, pprophesy to My people Israel.’

16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord:

You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,

And qdo not 2spout against the house of Isaac.’

17 “Therefore rthus says the Lord:

s‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;

Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;

Your land shall be divided by survey line;

You shall die in a tdefiled land;

And Israel shall surely be led away captive

From his own land.’ ”

Vision of the Summer Fruit

8 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me:

a“The end has come upon My people Israel;

bI will not pass by them anymore.

3 And cthe songs of the temple

Shall be wailing in that day,”

Says the Lord God—

“Many dead bodies everywhere,

dThey shall be thrown out in silence.”

4 Hear this, you who 1swallow up the needy,

And make the poor of the land fail,

5 Saying:

“When will the New Moon be past,

That we may sell grain?

And ethe Sabbath,

That we may 2trade wheat?

fMaking the ephah small and the shekel large,

Falsifying the scales by gdeceit,

6 That we may buy the poor for hsilver,

And the needy for a pair of sandals—

Even sell the bad wheat?”

7 The Lord has sworn by ithe pride of Jacob:

“Surely jI will never forget any of their works.