1 ach. 7:1 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said,bch. 7:8 “Amos, what do you see? ” And I said,c[Jer. 24:1; Mic. 7:1] “A basket of summer fruit. ” Then the Lord said to me,
dLam. 4:18 “The end has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.
3 e[ch. 5:23] The songs of the temple1Or palacef[Jer. 47:2] shall become wailings2Or The singing women of the palace shall wail in that day, ”
declares the Lord God.
g[ch. 6:9] “So many dead bodies! ”
“They are thrown everywhere! ”
h[ch. 6:10; Jer. 16:4, 6] “Silence! ”
4 Hear this,i[Ps. 14:4] you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When willjSee Num. 28:11 the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
Andk[Neh. 13:15, 16] the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may makelEzek. 45:10; Mic. 6:10, 11; See Hos. 12:7 the ephah small and the shekel great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor formch. 2:6 silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat? ”
7 The Lord has sworn bynch. 6:8 the pride of Jacob:
“SurelyoHos. 8:13; 9:9 I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 p[Hos. 4:3] Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
qch. 9:5 and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed aboutr[Zech. 10:11] and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt? ”
9 “And on that day, ” declares the Lord God,
sJer. 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 t[Jer. 7:34; 16:9; Hos. 2:11] I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
uIsa. 3:24 I will bring sackcloth on every waist
uIsa. 3:24 and baldness on every head;
vJer. 6:26; Zech. 12:10 I 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,
“whenw[Isa. 8:20, 21] I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
x[Ps. 74:9; Prov. 29:18; Mic. 3:7] but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 x[See ver. 11 above] 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,
y[ch. 4:8] but they shall not find it.
13 zIsa. 51:20 In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shalla[Jonah 4:8] faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear bybDeut. 9:21; 1 Kgs. 12:29, 30; Hos. 10:8 the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan, ’
and, ‘Asc[Acts 9:2] the Way ofdch. 5:5 Beersheba lives, ’
they shall fall, and never rise again. ”