1. This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit.
2. He said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”Then the Lord said to me, “An end has come for my people Israel, because I will not overlook their sins anymore.
3. “On that day the palace songs will become funeral songs,” says the Lord God. “There will be dead bodies thrown everywhere! Silence!”
4. Listen to me, you who walk on helpless people,you who are trying to destroy the poor people of this country, saying,
5. “When will the New Moon festival be overso we can sell grain?When will the Sabbath be overso we can bring out wheat to sell?We can charge them moreand give them less,and we can change the scales to cheat the people.
6. We will buy poor people for silver,and needy people for the price of a pair of sandals.We will even sell the wheat that was swept up from the floor.”
7. The Lord has sworn by his name, the Pride of Jacob, “I will never forget everything that these people did.