Amos 8

Thus the Lord God made me see, and behold, a basket of summer fruit!

And he said, “What are you seeing, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” And God said to me, “The end has come to my people Israel; I will not repeat again to pass over him. 3 And the songs of the temple will wail in that day”—the declaration of the Lord God— “many {are} the corpses; in every place one has thrown {them}. Hush!” \*

Hear this, the ones trampling the needy and to cause the afflicted of the land to cease, 5 saying, “When will the new moon pass, that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, that we may open wheat, to make the ephah small and to make the shekel great, and to pervert balances of deceit, 6 to buy the poor with silver and the needy in exchange for a pair of sandals, and the refuse of grain we will sell?” \*

God has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “If I ever forget all of their deeds. 8 Will not the land tremble over this, and everyone dwelling in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile, and be cast up and sunk, like the Nile of Egypt. \* 9 And it will happen in that day”—the declaration of the Lord God— “that I will make the sun set at noon, and I will darken the land in a day of light. 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into a lament. And I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day. \*

Behold, days are coming”—the declaration of the Lord God— “when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but rather to hear the words of God. 12 And they will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north and to the sunrise; they will rove about to seek the word of God, but they will not find it. \* 13 In that day, the beautiful virgins will faint, and the young men, from thirst— 14 the ones swearing by the guilt of Samaria, and they say, ‘By the life of your god, Dan!’ and, ‘By the life of the way of Beersheba!’— and they will fall, and they will not rise again.” \*