Thus the Lord 1GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch 2 He said, “What do you see, Amos?” And aI said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The bend has come for My people Israel. I will 1cspare them no longer.Lit pass him byJer 24:3Ezek 7:2, 3, 6Amos 7:8 3 1The asongs of the palace will turn to bwailing in that day,” declares the Lord GOD. “Many will be the ccorpses; in every place 2they will cast them forth 3in silence.”Or They will howl the palace songsLit he has thrownOr hush!Amos 5:23; 6:4, 5; 8:10Amos 5:16Amos 6:8-10
4 Hear this, you who 1atrample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,Or snap atPs 14:4; Prov 30:14; Amos 2:7; 5:11, 12 5 saying,“When will the anew moon 1be over,So that we may sell grain,And the bsabbath, that we may open the wheat market,To make the 2bushel smaller and the shekel bigger,And to ccheat with 3dishonest scales,Lit pass byLit ephahLit balances of deceptionNum 28:11; 2 Kin 4:23Ex 31:13-17; Neh 13:15Hos 12:7; Mic 6:11
6 So as to abuy the helpless for 1moneyAnd the needy for a pair of sandals,And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”Lit silverAmos 2:6 7 The LORD has asworn by the bpride of Jacob,“Indeed, I will cnever forget any of their deeds.Amos 4:2Deut 33:26, 29; Ps 68:34; Amos 6:8Ps 10:11; Hos 7:2; 8:138 “Because of this will not the land aquakeAnd everyone who dwells in it bmourn?Indeed, all of it will crise up like the Nile,And it will be tossed aboutAnd subside like the Nile of Egypt.Ps 18:7; 60:2; Is 5:25Hos 4:3Jer 46:7, 8; Amos 9:59 “It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord GOD,“That I will make the asun go down at noonAnd bmake the earth dark in 1broad daylight.Lit a day of lightJob 5:14; Is 13:10; Jer 15:9; Mic 3:6Is 59:9, 10; Amos 4:13; 5:810 “Then I will aturn your festivals into mourningAnd all your songs into 1lamentation;And I will bring bsackcloth on everyone’s loinsAnd baldness on every head.And I will make it clike a time of mourning for an only son,And the end of it will be like a bitter day.Or a dirgeJob 20:23; Amos 5:21Is 15:2, 3; Jer 48:37; Ezek 7:18; 27:31Jer 6:26; Zech 12:10 11 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD,“When I will send a famine on the land,Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,But rather afor hearing the words of the LORD.1 Sam 3:1; 2 Chr 15:3; Ps 74:9; Ezek 7:26; Mic 3:612 “People will stagger from sea to seaAnd from the north even to the east;They will go to and fro to aseek the word of the LORD,But they will not find it.Ezek 20:3, 3113 “In that day the beautiful avirginsAnd the young men will bfaint from thirst.Lam 1:18; 2:21Is 41:17; Hos 2:314 “As for those who swear by the 1aguilt of Samaria,Who say, ‘As your god lives, O bDan,’And, ‘As the way of cBeersheba lives,’They will fall and dnot rise again.”Or AshimahHos 8:51 Kin 12:28, 29Amos 5:5Amos 5:2