2. He asked me, “What do you see, Amos? ” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” The Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.
3. In that day the temple songs will become wailing” — this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence! ”
4. Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
5. asking, “When will the New Moon be overso we may sell grain, and the Sabbath,so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measurewhile increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.
6. We can buy the poor with silverand the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff! ”