Amos 8

1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

2And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them.”

3And the songs of the palace will become wailing in that day, declares the Lord GOD. Many will be the corpses; in every place they will throw them out—silence!

4Hear this, you who trample the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

5saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale—making the ephah small and the shekel large, and distorting deceitful scales?”

6to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings of the grain.

7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.

8Because of this, will not the land tremble, and every one who dwells in it mourn? All of it will rise like the Nile; it will be driven along and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

9And it shall happen in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight.

10I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

11Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Yahweh.

12They will wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they will roam about seeking the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it.

13In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint from thirst.

14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beer-sheba lives,’ will fall and never rise again.