Thus hath
the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket
of summer fruit.
02 And 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 of
Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
03 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings
in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be
many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast
them forth with silence.
04 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy,
even to make the poor of the land to fail,
05 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that
we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may
set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the
shekel great, and falsifying the balances by
deceit?
06 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the
needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the
refuse of the wheat?
07 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of
Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their
works.
08 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every
one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall
rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast
out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
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09 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith
the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go
down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the
clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and
all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring
up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon
every head; and I will make it as the mourning of
an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God,
that I will send a famine in the land, not a
famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the Lord:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and
from the north even to the east, they shall run
to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and
shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young
men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and
say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of
Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never
rise up again.
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