1 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”Then the Lord said to me:“The end has come upon My people Israel;I will not pass by them anymore.
3 And the songs of the templeShall be wailing in that day,”Says the Lord God—“Many dead bodies everywhere,They shall be thrown out in silence.”
4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy,And make the poor of the land fail,
5 Saying:“When will the New Moon be past,That we may sell grain?And the Sabbath,That we may trade wheat?Making the ephah small and the shekel large,Falsifying the scales by deceit,
6 That we may buy the poor for silver,And the needy for a pair of sandals—Even sell the bad wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:“Surely I will never forget any of their works.