Fourth Vision: A Basket of Summer Fruit

The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit. He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” (A)

I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”[a](B)

The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel;(C) I will no longer spare them.(D) In that day the temple[b] songs(E) will become wailing”(F)—this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!(G) Silence!” (H)

Hear this, you who trample on the needy(I)
and do away with the poor of the land,(J)
asking, “When will the New Moon be over
so we may sell grain,(K)
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?(L)
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price[c]
and cheat with dishonest scales.(M)
We can buy the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals(N)
and even sell the chaff!”

The Lord has sworn(O) by the Pride of Jacob:[d](P)

I will never forget all their deeds.(Q)
Because of this, won’t the land quake(R)
and all who dwell in it mourn?(S)
All of it will rise like the Nile;(T)
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.(U)

And in that day—
this is the declaration of the Lord God
I will make the sun go down at noon;(V)
I will darken the land in the daytime.(W)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 In Hb the word for summer fruit sounds like the word for end.
  2. 8:3 Or palace
  3. 8:5 Lit reduce the ephah and make the shekel great
  4. 8:7 = the Lord or the promised land

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