Amos 8:1 This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
Amos 8:2 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.
Amos 8:3 In that day,' declares the Sovereign LORD, 'the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies--flung everywhere! Silence!'
Amos 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
Amos 8:5 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,
Amos 8:6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
Amos 8:7 The LORD has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: 'I will never forget anything they have done.
Amos 8:8 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.
Amos 8:9 In that day,' declares the Sovereign LORD, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
Amos 8:10 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.
Amos 8:11 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.
Amos 8:12 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.
Amos 8:13 In that day 'the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.
Amos 8:14 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.