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A Basket of Ripe Fruit
This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
Vision of the Summer Fruit
Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
“What do you see, Amos?” he asked.
“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.
Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.
Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
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.
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.
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.”
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God —
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
They shall be thrown out in silence.”
Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,
and do away with the poor of the land,
saying,
“When will the New Moon be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market wheat?” —
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating with dishonest scales,
“When will the New Moon be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market wheat?” —
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating with dishonest scales,
buying the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
That we may buy the poor for silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals —
Even sell the bad wheat?”
And the needy for a pair of sandals —
Even sell the bad wheat?”
The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
“Will not the land tremble for this,
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.
“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
I will turn your religious festivals into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
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.
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.
“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land —
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
“when I will send a famine through the land —
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
“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.
“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.
People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.
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.
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall not find it.
“In that day
“the lovely young women and strong young men
will faint because of thirst.
“the lovely young women and strong young men
will faint because of thirst.
“In that day the fair virgins
And strong young men
Shall faint from thirst.
And strong young men
Shall faint from thirst.