1. Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
2. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer-fruit. And Jehovah said 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 palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!
4. Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
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 falsifying the balances for deceit:
6. that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.
7. Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works.