1This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw a basket of fruit. ⁴¹

2He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of fruit.” Then the Lord told me, “This is the end of my people Israel! I won't ignore their sins anymore.

3On that day the Temple songs will become sorrowful wailing. There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Silence!” declares the Lord.

4Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.

5You who ask, “When will the holy day ⁴²be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair scales?”

6You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.

7The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.

8Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile River in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again.

9On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime.

10I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. ⁴³I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.

11The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.

12People will wander from sea to sea, ⁴⁴from north to east, running to and fro searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

13On that day, even the beautiful girls and healthy young men will collapse from thirst.

14Those who swear by the disgraceful idols ⁴⁵of Samaria, who take oaths like, “By the life of your god, Dan,” or “A pilgrimage to the god of Beersheba”—they will fall, and never rise again.