“1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of
summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket
of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my
people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3 And the
songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD:
[there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them]
forth with silence.”
“4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of
the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may
sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the
ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by
deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair
of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The LORD hath sworn
by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their
works. 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that
dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall
be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt. 9 And it shall come
to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go
down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10 And I
will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness
upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son],
and the end thereof as a bitter day.”
“11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to
sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to
seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it]. 13 In that day shall
the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 14 They that swear by
the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of
Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.” (Amos
8:1-14 AV)