Amos 8

Vision of the Summer Fruit

8Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. ²And 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.

³And ^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.”

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

And make the poor of the land fail,

⁵Saying:

“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,

⁶That we may buy the poor for ^hsilver,

And the needy for a pair of sandals—

Even sell the bad wheat?”

⁷The Lord has sworn by ⁱthe pride of Jacob:

“Surely ^jI will never forget any of their works.

^8kShall the land not tremble for this,

And everyone mourn who dwells in it?

All of it shall swell like ³the River,

Heave and subside

^lLike the River of Egypt.

⁹“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,

^m“That I will make the sun go down at noon,

And I will darken the earth in ⁴broad daylight;

¹⁰I will turn your feasts into ⁿmourning,

^oAnd all your songs into lamentation;

^pI will bring sackcloth on every waist,

And baldness on every head;

I will make it like mourning for an only son,

And its end like a bitter day.

¹¹“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,

“That I will send a famine on the land,

Not a famine of bread,

Nor a thirst for water,

But ^qof hearing the words of the Lord.

¹²They shall wander from sea to sea,

And from north to east;

They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,

But shall ^rnot find it.

¹³“In that day the fair virgins

And strong young men

Shall faint from thirst.

¹⁴Those who ^sswear by ^tthe ⁵sin of Samaria,

Who say,

‘As your god lives, O Dan!’

And, ‘As the way of ^uBeersheba lives!’

They shall fall and never rise again.”