Amos 8

1 The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.

This is what the LORD showed me: And look, a basket of summer fruit.

2 ‘What do you see, Amos?’ he asked. I replied, ‘A basket of ripe summer fruit.’ Then the Lord said to me: The time is ripe for my people Israel, I will no longer overlook their crimes.

He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

3 The singing women in the palace will howl on that day, says the Lord: Corpses everywhere, thrown out in silence.

The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the LORD. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

4 Listen to this, you who trample on the needy, who oppress the poor of the earth,

Hear this, you who trample the needy, and destroy the poor of the land,

5 saying: When will the feast of the new moon be over so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath ended so that we may offer wheat for sale? Reducing the measure and increasing the price, cheating with false scales,

saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

6 mixing the sweepings in with the wheat. Then we can buy the poor for money, the needy for a pair of shoes.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

7 Now the Lord has taken an oath by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds!

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8 Because of this won’t the land quake, and all its inhabitants mourn? Won’t the whole of it rise like the Nile, churn and subside like the Nile in Egypt?

Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

9 On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun set at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

It will happen in that day," says the LORD, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, all your songs into dirges. I will cause you to dress in sackcloth, every head shaved. I will make you mourn like you have lost your only son, all that happens will end in bitterness.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

11 The day is coming, says the Lord God, when I will send hunger in the land. Not a famine of bread or thirst for water, but for hearing the message of the Lord.

Look, the days come," says the LORD, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the LORD.

12 Then they will wander from sea to sea, from the north to the east, to seek a message from the Lord, but they will not find it.

They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of the LORD, and will not find it.

13 In that day beautiful girls and strong young men will faint from thirst.

In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.

14 Those who take oaths by the shameful idol of Samaria, who swear, “As surely as your God lives, O Dan!” and, “By the sacred way to Beer-sheba!” – they will fall and never rise again.

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."