08:001

Thus the L-rd GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit

08:002

And He said: 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said: 'A basket of summer fruit.' Then said HaShem unto me: The end is come upon My people Israel; I will not again pardon them any more

08:003

And the songs of the palace shall be wailings in that day, saith the L-rd GOD; the dead bodies shall be many; in every place silence shall be cast

08:004

Hear this, O ye that would swallow the needy, and destroy the poor of the land

08:005

Saying: 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth corn? making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances of deceit

08:006

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?

08:007

HaShem hath sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their works

08:008

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt

08:009

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the L-rd GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day

08:010

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 for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day

08:011

Behold, the days come, saith the L-rd 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 HaShem

08:012

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 HaShem, and shall not find it

08:013

In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst

08:014

They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: 'As thy G-d, O Dan, liveth'; and: 'As the way of Beer-sheba liveth'; even they shall fall, and never rise up again