Amos
Chapters 8:1-4
Revised Version 1885
1Thus the Lord GODshewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,