¹Thus the Lord GOD showed me : behold , a basket of summer fruit .

²He said, “Amos , what do you see ?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit .”

Then the LORD said to me ,

“The end has come on my people Israel .

I will not again pass by them any more .

³The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day ,” says the Lord GOD .

“The dead bodies will be many . In every place they will throw them out with silence .

⁴Hear this , you who desire to swallow up the needy,

and cause the poor of the land to fail ,

⁵saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone , that we may sell grain ?

And the Sabbath , that we may market wheat ,

making the ephah small , and the shekel large,

and dealing falsely with balances of deceit ;

⁶that we may buy the poor for silver ,

and the needy for a pair of sandals ,

and sell the sweepings with the wheat ?’”

⁷The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob ,

“Surely I will never forget any of their works .

⁸Won’t the land tremble for this ,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it ?

Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River ;

and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt .

⁹It will happen in that day ,” says the Lord GOD ,

“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon ,

and I will darken the earth in the clear day .

¹⁰I will turn your feasts into mourning,

and all your songs into lamentation ;

and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,

and baldness on every head .

I will make it like the mourning for an only son ,

and its end like a bitter day .

¹¹Behold , the days come ,” says the Lord GOD ,

“that I will send a famine in the land,

not a famine of bread ,

nor a thirst for water ,

but of hearing the LORD ’s words .

¹²They will wander from sea to sea ,

and from the north even to the east ;

they will run back and forth to seek the LORD ’s word ,

and will not find it .

¹³In that day the beautiful virgins

and the young men will faint for thirst .

¹⁴Those who swear by the sin of Samaria ,

and say, ‘As your god , Dan , lives ,’

and , ‘As the way of Beersheba lives ,’

they will fall , and never rise up again .”