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The Basket of Ripe Fruit
Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning
This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer-fruit. And Jehovah said unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.
And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!
Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
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 for deceit:
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.
that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works.
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall wholly rise up like the Nile; and it shall surge and sink down, as the river of Egypt.
Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day.
“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
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 for an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when I will send a famine on the land —
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
“when I will send a famine on the land —
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;
“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
shall faint for thirst.
they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, [As] thy god, O Dan, liveth! and, [As] the way of Beer-sheba liveth! even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”