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| 1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. | 1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. |
| 2And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them. | 2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.” |
| 3The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” declares the Lord GOD. “So many dead bodies!” “They are thrown everywhere!” “Silence!” | 3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!” |
| 4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, | 4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, |
| 5saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, | 5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. |
| 6that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?” | 6Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!” |
| 7The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. | 7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds. |
| 8Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?” | 8Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt. |
| 9“And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. | 9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime. |
| 10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. | 10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day. |
| 11“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. | 11Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. |
| 12They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. | 12People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. |
| 13“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst. | 13In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst. |
| 14Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’ they shall fall, and never rise again.” | 14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.” |
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