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A Vision of Ripe Fruit

Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.

Vision of the Summer Fruit

Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.

“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.

2

And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the Lord said to me:
“The end has come upon My people Israel;
I will not pass by them anymore.

3

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!”

3

And the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God —
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
They shall be thrown out in silence.”

4

Listen to this, you who rob the poor
and trample down the needy!

4

Hear this, you who [a]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,

5

You can’t wait for the Sabbath day to be over
and the religious festivals to end
so you can get back to cheating the helpless.
You measure out grain with dishonest measures
and cheat the buyer with dishonest scales.a

5

Saying:
“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
That we may [b]trade wheat?
Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by deceit,

6

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.

6

That we may buy the poor for silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals —
Even sell the bad wheat?”

7

Now the LORD has sworn this oath
by his own name, the Pride of Israelb:
“I will never forget
the wicked things you have done!

7

The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8

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.

8

Shall the land not tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
All of it shall swell like [c]the River,
Heave and subside
Like the River of Egypt.

9

“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.

9

“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in [d]broad daylight;

10

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!

10

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 mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.

11

“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.

11

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That 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.

12

People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from border to borderc
searching for the word of the LORD,
but they will not find it.

12

They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall not find it.

13

Beautiful girls and strong young men
will grow faint in that day,
thirsting for the LORD’s word.

13

“In that day the fair virgins
And strong young men
Shall faint from thirst.

14

And those who swear by the shameful idols of Samaria —
who take oaths in the name of the god of Dan
and make vows in the name of the god of Beershebad —
they will all fall down,
never to rise again.”

14

Those who swear by the [e]sin of Samaria,
Who say,
‘As your god lives, O Dan!’
And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives!’
They shall fall and never rise again.”

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Amos 8

Amos 8