Amos 8:1-6 ▼

1 Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.

2 And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel. I will pass over them no longer.

3 And they will wail with the songs of the palace in that day,” declares Lord Yahweh. “Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.”

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, even to cause the humble of the land to cease,

5 saying, “When will the new moon pass over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market, To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with a deceptive balance,

6 So as to buy the poor for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”