1 *ch. 7:1This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, *ch. 7:8"Amos, what do you see?" And I said, *[Jer. 24:1;Mic. 7:1] "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me,

*Lam. 4:18"The end*8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike has come upon my people Israel;

I will never again pass by them.

3 *[ch. 5:23] The songs of the temple*8:3 Or palace*[Jer. 47:2] shall become wailings*8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail in that day,"

declares the Lord God.

*[ch. 6:9] "So many dead bodies!"

"They are thrown everywhere!"

*[ch. 6:10;Jer. 16:4,6]"Silence!"

4 Hear this, *[Ps. 14:4]you who trample on the needy

and bring the poor of the land to an end,

5 saying, "When will *See Num. 28:11the new moon be over,

that we may sell grain?

And *[Neh. 13:15,16] the Sabbath,

that we may offer wheat for sale,

that we may make *Ezek. 45:10;Mic. 6:10,11;See Hos. 12:7the ephah small and the shekel*8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams great

and deal deceitfully with false balances,

6 that we may buy the poor for *ch. 2:6silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals

and sell the chaff of the wheat?"

7 The Lord has sworn by *ch. 6:8the pride of Jacob:

"Surely *Hos. 8:13;9:9I will never forget any of their deeds.

8 *[Hos. 4:3] Shall not the land tremble on this account,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it,

*ch. 9:5and all of it rise like the Nile,

and be tossed about *[Zech. 10:11]and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?"

9 "And on that day," declares the Lord God,

*Jer. 15:9;Mic. 3:6;Matt. 24:29;[ch. 4:13;5:8]"I will make the sun go down at noon

and darken the earth in broad daylight.

10 *[Jer. 7:34;16:9;Hos. 2:11] I will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

*Isa. 3:24I will bring sackcloth on every waist

*Isa. 3:24and baldness on every head;

*Jer. 6:26;Zech. 12:10I will make it like the mourning for an only son

and the end of it like a bitter day.

11 "Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord God,

"when *[Isa. 8:20,21] I will send a famine on the land—

not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,

*[Ps. 74:9;Prov. 29:18;Mic. 3:7]but of hearing the words of the Lord.

12 *[See ver. 11above] They shall wander from sea to sea,

and from north to east;

they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,

*[ch. 4:8]but they shall not find it.

13 *Isa. 51:20"In that day the lovely virgins and the young men

shall *[Jonah 4:8]faint for thirst.

14 Those who swear by *Deut. 9:21;1 Kgs. 12:29,30;Hos. 10:8the Guilt of Samaria,

and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’

and, ‘As *[Acts 9:2] the Way of *ch. 5:5Beersheba lives,’

they shall fall, and never rise again."