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A Basket of Ripe Fruit
This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
A Vision of Ripe Fruit
Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
“What do you see, Amos?” he asked.
“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.
Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.
Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
“What do you see, Amos?” he asked.
I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”
Then the LORD said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.
I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”
Then the LORD said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.
In that day the singing in the temple will turn to wailing. Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere. They will be carried out of the city in silence. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”
Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,
and do away with the poor of the land,
Listen to this, you who rob the poor
and trample down the needy!
and trample down the needy!
saying,
“When will the New Moon be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market wheat?” —
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating with dishonest scales,
“When will the New Moon be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market wheat?” —
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating with dishonest scales,
buying the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
And you mix the grain you sell
with chaff swept from the floor.
Then you enslave poor people
for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
with chaff swept from the floor.
Then you enslave poor people
for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.
“Will not the land tremble for this,
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.
The earth will tremble for your deeds,
and everyone will mourn.
The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime;
it will heave up, then sink again.
and everyone will mourn.
The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime;
it will heave up, then sink again.
“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,
“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.
“In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth while it is still day.
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth while it is still day.
I will turn your religious festivals into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning
and your singing into weeping.
You will wear funeral clothes
and shave your heads to show your sorrow —
as if your only son had died.
How very bitter that day will be!
and your singing into weeping.
You will wear funeral clothes
and shave your heads to show your sorrow —
as if your only son had died.
How very bitter that day will be!
“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land —
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
“when I will send a famine through the land —
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
“The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign LORD,
“when I will send a famine on the land —
not a famine of bread or water
but of hearing the words of the LORD.
“when I will send a famine on the land —
not a famine of bread or water
but of hearing the words of the LORD.
People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.
“In that day
“the lovely young women and strong young men
will faint because of thirst.
“the lovely young women and strong young men
will faint because of thirst.
Beautiful girls and strong young men
will grow faint in that day,
thirsting for the LORD’s word.
will grow faint in that day,
thirsting for the LORD’s word.