1 The Lord GOD let me see this: a basket of summer fruit.
2 He asked, "What do you see, Amos?" I answered, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come for my people Israel; I will not overlook them again.
3 On that day the songs of the temple will become howling, declares the Lord GOD. Many will be the corpses, cast out in every place. Hush!"
4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy and would do away with the poor of the land,
5 you who say, "When will the new moon be past, so we can sell our grain, and the Sabbath, so we can put out the wheat, shrinking the ephah, inflating the shekel, rigging the scales to cheat,
6 so we can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
7 By the pride of Jacob the LORD has sworn: I will not forget a single thing they have done, ever.
8 Shall not the land quake over this, and all who live in it grieve? It will all rise like the Nile, heave, and subside like the river of Egypt.
9 On that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun set at midday and bring darkness over the land while it is still day.
10 I will change your festivals into grief and every song of yours into a dirge; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins and shave every head bald; I will make it like grieving for an only son, and its end a day of bitterness.
11 The days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send hunger into the land: not hunger for bread or thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the LORD.
12 People will reel from sea to sea and wander from the north to the sunrise, searching for the word of the LORD, and they will not find it.
13 On that day beautiful young women and young men will collapse from thirst.
14 Those who take oaths by the guilt of Samaria, saying, "By the life of your god, Dan!" and "By the life of the way to Beersheba!" will fall and not get up again.