This is what the Lord GOD showed me : I saw a basket of summer fruit.
“ Amos - , what do you see ? ” He asked. “ A basket of summer fruit , ” I replied. So the LORD said to me , “ The end has come for My people Israel ; I will no longer ... spare
“ In that day , ” declares the Lord GOD , “ the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many (will be) the corpses , strewn in silence everywhere ... ! ”
Hear this , you who trample the needy , who do away with the poor of the land ,
asking , “ When will the New Moon be over , that we may sell grain ? When will the Sabbath (end) , that we may Mark -et wheat ? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel ; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals , selling even the chaff with the wheat ! ”
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob : “ I will never ... forget any of their deeds.
Will not the land quake for this , and all its dwellers mourn ? All of it will swell like the Nile ; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
- And in that day , declares the Lord GOD , I will make the sun go down at noon , and I will darken the earth in the daytime ....
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear ... ... sackcloth ... and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son , and its outcome like a bitter day.
Behold , the days are coming , declares the Lord GOD , when I will send a famine on the land — not a famine of bread ... or a thirst for water , but (a famine) ... of hearing - the words of the LORD.
People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east , seeking - the word of the LORD , but they will not find it.
In that day the lovely young women — the young men as well — will faint from thirst.
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say , ‘ As surely as your god lives , O Dan , ’ or, ‘As surely as the way vvv of Beersheba lives ’— they will fall , never to rise again. ”