1 Vision of the Summer Fruit Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me: Ezek. 7:2 “The end has come upon My people Israel; Amos 7:8 I will not pass by them anymore.
3 And Amos 5:23 the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day,” Says the Lord God — “Many dead bodies everywhere, Amos 6:9, 10 They shall be thrown out in silence.”
4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail,
5 Saying: “When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And Ex. 31:13–17; Neh. 13:15 the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Mic. 6:10, 11 Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by Lev. 19:35, 36; Deut. 25:13–15 deceit,
6 That we may buy the poor for Amos 2:6 silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by Deut. 33:26, 29; Ps. 68:34; Amos 6:8 the pride of Jacob: “Surely Ps. 10:11; Hos. 7:2; 8:13 I will never forget any of their works.
8 Hos. 4:3 Shall the land not tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall swell like the River, Heave and subside Jer. 46:7, 8; Amos 9:5 Like the River of Egypt.
9 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God , Job 5:14; Is. 13:10; 59:9, 10; Jer. 15:9; (Mic. 3:6); Matt. 27:45; Mark 15:32; Luke 23:44 “That I will make the sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into Lam. 5:15; Ezek. 7:18 mourning, Is. 15:2, 3; Jer. 48:37; Ezek. 27:31 And all your songs into lamentation; Jer. 6:26; (Zech. 12:10) I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God , “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But 1 Sam. 3:1;2 Chr. 15:3; Ps. 74:9; Ezek. 7:26; Mic. 3:6 of hearing the words of the Lord .
12 They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord , But shall Hos. 5:6 not find it.
13 “In that day the fair virgins And strong young men Shall faint from thirst.
14 Those who Hos. 4:15 swear by Deut. 9:21 the sin of Samaria, Who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan!’ And, ‘As the way of Amos 5:5 Beersheba lives!’ They shall fall and never rise again.”