| Berean Study Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. | 1The Lord GOD showed me this: A basket of summer fruit. |
| 2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.” | 2He asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A basket of summer fruit." The LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them. |
| 3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!” | 3In that day the temple songs will become wailing"--this is the Lord GOD's declaration. "Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!" |
| 4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, | 4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land, |
| 5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. | 5asking, "When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales. |
| 6Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!” | 6We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!" |
| 7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds. | 7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds. |
| 8Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt. | 8Because of this, won't the land quake and all who dwell in it mourn? All of it will rise like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt. |
| 9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime. | 9And in that day-- this is the declaration of the Lord GOD-- I will make the sun go down at noon; I will darken the land in the daytime. |
| 10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day. | 10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day. |
| 11Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. | 11Hear this! The days are coming-- this is the declaration of the Lord GOD-- when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. |
| 12People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. | 12People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. |
| 13In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst. | 13In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst. |
| 14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.” | 14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, "As your god lives, Dan," or "As the way of Beer-sheba lives"-- they will fall, never to rise again. |
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