Amos 8:1–9

¹Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.↗

²He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.↗

³The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.↗

⁴Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,↗

⁵saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;↗

⁶that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”↗

⁷The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.↗

⁸Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.↗

⁹It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.↗