1. This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
2. ‘What do you see, Amos?’ he asked.‘A basket of ripe fruit,’ I answered.Then the Lord said to me, ‘The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
3. ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies – flung everywhere! Silence!’
4. Hear this, you who trample the needyand do away with the poor of the land,