1Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me, and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel, I will pass by them no more.
3And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies shall be in every place: they shall cast them forth with silence.
4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the poor, that ye may make the needy of the land to fail,
5Saying, When will the new month be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, and make the Ephah small and the shekel great, and falsify the weights by deceit?
6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.
7The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely, I will never forget any of their works.
8Shall not the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn, that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood, and it shall be cast out, and drowned as by the flood of Egypt.
9And in that day, saith the Lord God, I will even cause the Sun to go down at noon: I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10And I will turn your feasts into mourning: and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11Behold, the days come, saith 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 word of the Lord.
12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North even unto the East shall they run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
13In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men perish for thirst.
14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and that say, Thy God, O Dan, liveth, and the manner of Beersheba liveth, even they shall fall, and never rise up again.