1. I had another vision from the Sovereign Lord. In it I saw a basket of fruit.
2. The Lord asked, “Amos, what do you see?”“A basket of fruit,” I answered.The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
3. On that day the songs in the palace will become cries of mourning. There will be dead bodies everywhere. They will be thrown out in silence.”
4. Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.
5. You say to yourselves, “We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our corn. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and tamper with the scales to cheat our customers.
6. We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find a poor person who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave.”