Dual Panel1The sovereign <03069> Lord <0136> showed <07200> me this: I saw <02009> a basket <03619> of summer fruit <07019>.
2He said <0559>, “What <04100> do you <0859> see <07200>, Amos <05986>?” I replied <0559>, “A basket <03619> of summer fruit <07019>.” Then the Lord <03068> said <0559> to <0413> me, “The end <07093> has come <0935> for <0413> my people <05971> Israel <03478>! I will no <03808> longer <05750> <03254> overlook <05674> their sins.
3The women singing <07892> in the temple <01964> will wail <03213> in that day <03117>.” The sovereign <0136> Lord <03068> is speaking <05002>. “There will be many <07227> corpses <06297> littered <07993> everywhere <04725> <03605>! Be quiet <02013>!”
4Listen <08085> to this <02063>, you who trample <07602> the needy <034>, and do away <07673> with the destitute <06041> <06035> in the land.
5You say <0559>, “When <04970> will the new moon <02320> festival be over <05674>, so we can sell <07666> grain <07668>? When will the Sabbath <07676> end, so we can open up <06605> the grain <01250> bins <0374>? We’re eager to sell less <06994> for a higher <01431> price <08255>, and to cheat <04820> the buyer with rigged <05791> scales <03976>!
6We’re eager to trade <07069> silver <03701> for the poor <01800>, a pair of sandals <05275> for the needy <034>! We want to <05668> mix in some chaff <04651> with the grain <01250>!”
7The Lord <03068> confirms this oath <07650> by the arrogance <01347> of Jacob <03290>: “I swear I will never <05331> forget <07911> all <03605> you have done <04639>!
8Because <05921> of this <02063> the earth <0776> will quake <07264>, and all <03605> who live <03427> in it will mourn <056>. The whole <03605> earth will rise <05927> like the River Nile <02975>, it will surge upward <01644> and then grow calm <08257>, like the Nile <02975> in Egypt <04714>.
9In that day <03117>,” says <05002> the sovereign <0136> Lord <03069>, “I will make the sun <08121> set <0935> at noon <06672>, and make the earth <0776> dark <02821> in the middle <0216> of the day <03117>.
10I will turn <02015> your festivals <02282> into funerals <060>, and all <03605> your songs <07892> into funeral dirges <07015>. I will make <05927> everyone <03605> wear funeral clothes <08242> and cause every <03605> head <07218> to be shaved bald <07144>. I will make <07760> you mourn <060> as if you had lost your only son <03173>; when it ends <0319> it will indeed have been a bitter <04751> day <03117>.
11Be certain of this <02009>, the time <03117> is coming <0935>,” says <05002> the sovereign <0136> Lord <03069>, “when I will send <07971> a famine <07458> through the land <0776>– not <03808> a shortage <06772> <07458> of food <03899> or <03808> water <04325> but <0518> <03588> an end to divine revelation <03068> <01697> <08085>!
12People will stagger <05128> from sea <03220> to <05704> sea <03220>, and from the north <06828> around to <05704> the east <04217>. They will wander about <07751> looking <01245> for a revelation <01697> from the Lord <03068>, but they will not <03808> find <04672> any.
13In that day <03117> your beautiful <03303> young women <01330> and your young men <0970> will faint <05968> from thirst <06772>.
14These are the ones who now take oaths <07650> in the name of the sinful <0819> idol goddess of Samaria <08111>. They vow <0559>, ‘As surely <02416> as your god <0430> lives, O Dan <01835>,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved <01870> one lives <02416>, O Beer Sheba <0884>!’ But they will fall down <05307> and not <03808> get up <06965> again <05750>.”