1 O Senhor Deus me fez ver isto: eis aqui um cesto de frutos de verão. 2 E perguntou: Que vês, Amós? E eu respondi: Um cesto de frutos de verão. Então, o Senhor me disse: Chegou o fim para o meu povo de Israel; e jamais passarei por ele. 3 Mas os cânticos do templo, naquele dia, serão uivos, diz o Senhor Deus; multiplicar-se-ão os cadáveres; em todos os lugares, serão lançados fora. Silêncio!

4 Ouvi isto, vós que tendes gana contra o necessitado e destruís os miseráveis da terra, 5 dizendo: Quando passará a Festa da Lua Nova, para vendermos os cereais? E o sábado, para abrirmos os celeiros de trigo, diminuindo o efa, e aumentando o siclo, e procedendo dolosamente com balanças enganadoras, 6 para comprarmos os pobres por dinheiro e os necessitados por um par de sandálias e vendermos o refugo do trigo? 7 Jurou o Senhor pela glória de Jacó: Eu não me esquecerei de todas as suas obras, para sempre! 8 Por causa disto, não estremecerá a terra? E não se enlutará todo aquele que habita nela? Certamente, levantar-se-á toda como o Nilo, será agitada e abaixará como o rio do Egito. 9 Sucederá que, naquele dia, diz o Senhor Deus, farei que o sol se ponha ao meio-dia e entenebrecerei a terra em dia claro. 10 Converterei as vossas festas em luto e todos os vossos cânticos em lamentações; porei pano de saco sobre todos os lombos e calva sobre toda cabeça; e farei que isso seja como luto por filho único, luto cujo fim será como dia de amarguras.

11 Eis que vêm dias, diz o Senhor Deus, em que enviarei fome sobre a terra, não de pão, nem sede de água, mas de ouvir as palavras do Senhor. 12 Andarão de mar a mar e do Norte até ao Oriente; correrão por toda parte, procurando a palavra do Senhor, e não a acharão. 13 Naquele dia, as virgens formosas e os jovens desmaiarão de sede, 14 os que, agora, juram pelo ídolo de Samaria e dizem: Como é certo viver o teu deus, ó Dã! E: Como é certo viver o culto de Berseba! Esses mesmos cairão e não se levantarão jamais.

1 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.

4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. 10 And 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 for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah. 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst. 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.

1 This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.

2 "What do you see, Amos?" he asked. "A basket of ripe fruit," I answered. Then the LORD said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

3 "In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. "Many, many bodies —flung everywhere! Silence!"

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

5 saying, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?" — skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,

6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

7 The LORD has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget anything they have done.

8 "Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.

9 "In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

10 I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

11 "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land — not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

12 People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

13 "In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria — who say, 'As surely as your god lives, Dan,' or, 'As surely as the god "of Beersheba lives' — they will fall, never to rise again."