Fourth Vision: A Basket of Summer Fruit
1 The LordGodshowed me this: A basket of summer fruit.
2 He asked me, “What do you see, Amos? ”
I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”
TheLordsaid to me, “The end has come for My people Israel;I will no longer spare them.
3 In that day the templesongswill become wailing”— this is the LordGod’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!Silence! ”
4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,
5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over
so we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price
and cheat with dishonest scales.
6 We can buy the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and even sell the chaff! ”
7 TheLordhas swornby the Pride of Jacob:
I will never forget all their deeds.
8 Because of this, won’t the land quake
and all who dwell in it mourn?
All of it will rise like the Nile;
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.
9 And in that day —
this is the declaration of the LordGod—
I will make the sun go down at noon;
I will darken the land in the daytime.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will cause everyoneto wear sackcloth
and every head to be shaved.
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son
and its outcome like a bitter day.
11 Hear this! The days are coming —
this is the declaration of the LordGod—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of theLord.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and roam from north to east,
seeking the word of theLord,
but they will not find it.
13 In that day the beautiful young women,
the young men also, will faint from thirst.
14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the wayof Beer-sheba lives”—
they will fall, never to rise again.
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