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 needy and do away with the poor of the land,