The Basket of Summer Fruit 1 ULT Thus the Lord Yahweh made me see, and behold, a basket of summer fruit! BSB BSB: This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
2 ULT And he said,“What are you seeing, Amos?” And I said,“A basket of summer fruit.” And Yahweh said to me,“The end has come to my people Israel; I will not repeat again to pass over him. BSB BSB: “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.”
3 ULT And the songs of the temple will wail in that day”— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—“many{ are} the corpses; in every place one has thrown{ them}. Hush!” BSB BSB: “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!”
4 ULT Hear this, the ones trampling the needy and to cause the afflicted of the land to cease, BSB BSB: Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
5 ULT saying,“When will the new moon pass, that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, that we may open wheat, to make the ephah small and to make the shekel great, and to pervert balances of deceit, BSB BSB: asking, “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.
6 ULT to buy the poor with silver and the needy in exchange for a pair of sandals, and the refuse of grain we will sell?” BSB BSB: Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
7 ULT Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,“If I ever forget all of their deeds. BSB BSB: The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 ULT Will not the land tremble over this, and everyone dwelling in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile, and be cast up and sunk, like the Nile of Egypt. BSB BSB: Will 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 ULT And it will happen in that day”— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—“that I will make the sun set at noon, and I will darken the land in a day of light. BSB BSB: And 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.
10 ULT And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into a lament. And I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day. BSB BSB: I 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 ULT Behold, days are coming”— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—“when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but rather to hear the words of Yahweh. BSB BSB: Behold, 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.
12 ULT And they will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north and to the sunrise; they will rove about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it. BSB BSB: People 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 ULT In that day, the beautiful virgins will faint, and the young men, from thirst— BSB BSB: In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
14 ULT the ones swearing by the guilt of Samaria, and they say,‘By the life of your god, Dan!’ and,‘By the life of the way of Beersheba!’— and they will fall, and they will not rise again.” BSB BSB: Those 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.”