The Basket of Summer Fruit

1Thus the Lord YHWH has shown me: And behold, a basket of summer fruit.†

2And He said, “What are you seeing, Amos?”

And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

And YHWH said to me: “The end has come for My people Israel! I will not continue anymore to pass over him.”

3“And they will wail the songs† of the temple† on that day,” a declaration of the Lord YHWH. “Many a corpse in every place is strewn! Silence!”

4Hear this, those swallowing up the needy

and causing to cease the poor of the land,

5saying, “When will the New Moon pass,

so that we may sell grain,

and the Sabbath,

that we may trade wheat,

making small the ephah and making large the shekel,†

and cheating with scales of deceit,

6to acquire the poor with silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

even selling the chaff with the wheat?”

7YHWH has sworn by the pride of Jacob,

“I will not forget to the end any of their works.

8Over this, will the land not quake,

and all dwelling in it will mourn?

And all of it will rise up like the River

and it will surge and subside

like the River of Egypt.

9And it will come to pass in that day,

a declaration of the Lord YHWH,

that I will make the sun go down at noon,

and I will bring darkness to the earth in the daytime light.

10And I will turn your⁺ feasts to mourning,

and all your⁺ songs to lamentation;

and I will bring up sackcloth over all loins,

and baldness on every head,

and I will set it like mourning for an only son,

and its end like a day most bitter!

11Behold, the days are coming,

a declaration of the Lord YHWH,

and I will send a famine on the land:

Not a famine of bread and not a thirst for water,

but rather of hearing the words of YHWH.

12And they will wander from sea to sea,

and they will roam about from the north to the east,

seeking the word of YHWH,

and they will not find it.

13On that day,

the beautiful virgins will faint—

and the young men—from thirst.

14Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria,

and having said, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’

and ‘as lives the way† of Beersheba,’

they will fall, and they will not rise again!”