Amos 8

¹This is what the Lord God showed me: behold , a basket of summer fruit .

²And he said , Amos , what do you see ? And I said , A basket of summer fruit . Then the Lord said to me , The end has come upon my people Israel ; I will never again pass by them.

³The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day , declares the Lord God. So many dead bodies ! They are thrown everywhere ! Silence !

⁴Hear this , you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end ,

⁵saying , When will the new moon be over , that we may sell grain ? And the Sabbath , that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances ,

⁶that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat ?

⁷The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob : Surely I will never forget any of their deeds .

⁸Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile , and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt ?

⁹And on that day , declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight .

¹⁰I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation ; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head ; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day .

¹¹Behold , the days are coming , declares the Lord God, when I will send a famine on the land — not a famine of bread , nor a thirst for water , but of hearing the words of the Lord.

¹²They shall wander from sea to sea , and from north to east ; they shall run to and fro , to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.

¹³In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst .

¹⁴Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria , and say , As your god lives , O Dan , and, As the Way of Beersheba lives , they shall fall , and never rise again .