1. Thus the Lord GODshewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
4. Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5. saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;