1Thus the Lord Yehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Yehovah said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says the Lord Yehovah: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall cast them forth with silence. 4Hear this, O you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7Yehovah has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one who dwells in it mourn? indeed, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt. 9And it shall happen in that day, says the Lord Yehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. 10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and its end as a bitter day. 11Behold, the days come, says the Lord Yehovah, 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 Yehovah. 12And 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 Yehovah, and shall not find it. 13In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst. 14Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As your god, O Dan, lives; and, As the way of Beer-sheba lives; they shall fall, and never rise up again.