1 This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit.
2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?”And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon My people Israel. I will forgive them no more.
3 “The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God. “The corpses shall be many, cast down everywhere. Hush!”
4 Hear this, you who trample on the needyto make the poor of the land fail,
5 saying, “When will the New Moon be over,so that we may sell grain?And the Sabbath,that we may open the wheat sales,making the ephah too small,and the shekel too heavy,cheating with dishonest scales,