Amos 8

The Basket of Summer Fruit

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. ¹ ‡ Amo 7:1Amo 7:4Amo 7:7

2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. ‡ Amo 7:8Lam 4:18Jer 1:11-14Mic 7:12Sa 16:1-2Deu 26:1-4Ezk 12:23Ezk 3:10 +14

“A basket of summer fruit,” I replied.

So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs ²of the temple ³will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!” ‡ Amo 5:23Amo 6:9-10Jer 9:21-22Amo 5:16Lev 10:3Amo 4:10Amo 8:10Hos 10:5-6 +8

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, ‡ Pro 30:14Amo 5:11Psa 14:4Isa 32:6-7Psa 12:5Amo 2:6-7Psa 140:12Jas 5:6 +8

who do away with the poor of the land,

5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, ‡ Neh 13:15-21Hos 12:7Mic 6:10-11Deu 25:13-16Lev 19:36Exo 20:8-10Isa 1:13Pro 11:1 +11

that we may sell grain?

When will the Sabbath end,

that we may market wheat?

Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; ⁴

let us cheat with dishonest scales.

6 Let us buy the poor with silver ‡ Amo 2:6Amo 8:4Jol 3:3Jol 3:6Lev 25:39-42Neh 5:1-5Neh 5:8

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: ‡ Amo 6:8Hos 9:9Hos 8:13Hos 7:2Psa 10:11Deu 33:26-29Isa 43:25Jer 17:1 +6

“I will never forget any of their deeds.

8 Will not the land quake for this, ‡ Amo 9:5Hos 4:3Jer 46:8Psa 18:7Isa 5:25Amo 8:10Dan 9:26Hag 2:6-7 +11

and all its dwellers mourn?

All of it will swell like the Nile;

it will surge and then subside

like the Nile in Egypt.

9 And in that day, ‡ Mrk 15:33Mat 27:45Jer 15:9Luk 23:44Mat 24:29Mic 3:6Amo 5:8Isa 59:9-10 +7

declares the Lord GOD,

I will make the sun go down at noon,

and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning ‡ Jer 6:26Zec 12:10Ezk 7:18Jer 48:37Job 20:23Hos 2:11Isa 15:2-3Luk 7:12-13 +12

and all your songs into lamentation.

I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth

and every head to be shaved.

I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,

and its outcome like a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days are coming, ‡ 1Sa 3:1Psa 74:92Ch 15:31Sa 28:6Ezk 7:26Mat 9:36Mic 3:61Sa 28:15 +2

declares the Lord GOD,

when I will send a famine on the land—

not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,

but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

12 People will stagger from sea to sea ‡ Rom 11:7-102Ti 3:6-7Mat 12:30Pro 14:6Dan 12:4Mat 24:23-26Rom 9:31-33Ezk 20:31 +2

and roam from north to east,

seeking the word of the LORD,

but they will not find it.

13 In that day the lovely young women— ‡ Hos 2:3Lam 1:18Lam 2:21Deu 32:25Isa 40:30Isa 41:17-20Jer 48:18Lam 2:10 +3

the young men as well—

will faint from thirst.

14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria ‡ Amo 5:51Ki 12:28-29Deu 9:21Act 9:21Ki 12:321Ki 13:22-341Ki 14:161Ki 16:24 +20

and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’

or, ‘As surely as the way ⁵of Beersheba lives’—

they will fall, never to rise again.”