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A Vision of Ripe Fruit
Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning
This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
“What do you see, Amos?” he asked.
I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”
Then the LORD said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.
I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”
Then the LORD said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.
In that day the singing in the temple will turn to wailing. Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere. They will be carried out of the city in silence. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”
Listen to this, you who rob the poor
and trample down the needy!
and trample down the needy!
Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
And you mix the grain you sell
with chaff swept from the floor.
Then you enslave poor people
for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
with chaff swept from the floor.
Then you enslave poor people
for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
The earth will tremble for your deeds,
and everyone will mourn.
The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime;
it will heave up, then sink again.
and everyone will mourn.
The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime;
it will heave up, then sink again.
Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
“In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth while it is still day.
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth while it is still day.
“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
“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 celebrations into times of mourning
and your singing into weeping.
You will wear funeral clothes
and shave your heads to show your sorrow —
as if your only son had died.
How very bitter that day will be!
and your singing into weeping.
You will wear funeral clothes
and shave your heads to show your sorrow —
as if your only son had died.
How very bitter that day will be!
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 the mourning for an only son
and the end of it 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 the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
“The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign LORD,
“when I will send a famine on the land —
not a famine of bread or water
but of hearing the words of the LORD.
“when I will send a famine on the land —
not a famine of bread or water
but of hearing the words of the LORD.
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when 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.
“when 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.
They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
Beautiful girls and strong young men
will grow faint in that day,
thirsting for the LORD’s word.
will grow faint in that day,
thirsting for the LORD’s word.
“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
shall faint for thirst.
Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”