Amos 8:1-14
8 This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah showed me: Look! There was a basket of summer fruit.
2 Then he said, “What do you see, Aʹmos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Jehovah said to me: “The end has come for my people Israel. I will no longer pardon them.+
3 ‘The songs of the temple will turn into wailing in that day,’+ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah. ‘There will be many carcasses thrown everywhere+—hush!’
4 Hear this, you who trample on the poorAnd who bring the meek of the land to an end,+
5 Who say, ‘When will the new moon festival be over,+ that we may sell our grain,And the Sabbath,+ that we may offer grain for sale?
So that we may make the eʹphah* measure smallerAnd the shekel* weight greater,To falsify our scales of deception;+
6 So that we may buy the needy for silverAnd the poor for a pair of sandals,+And sell the worthless part of the grain.’
7 Jehovah has sworn by the Pride of Jacob,+‘Never will I forget all their deeds.+
8 On this account the land* will tremble,And every inhabitant in it will mourn.+
Will it not all rise like the Nile,And surge and sink down like the Nile of Egypt?’+
9 ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah,‘I will make the sun go down at high noon,And I will darken the land on a bright day.+
10 I will turn your festivals into mourning+And all your songs into dirges.*
I will put sackcloth on all hips and make every head bald;I will make it like the mourning for an only son,And the end of it like a bitter day.’
11 ‘Look! The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah,‘When I will send a famine into the land,Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,But for hearing the words of Jehovah.+
12 They will stagger from sea to seaAnd from the north to the east.*
They will rove about searching for the word of Jehovah, but they will not find it.
13 In that day beautiful virgins will faint,Also young men, because of the thirst;
14 Those who swear by the guilt of Sa·marʹi·a+ and who say,“As surely as your god lives, O Dan!”+
And, “As surely as the way of Beʹer-sheʹba+ lives!”
They will fall, and they will not rise up again.’”+
