1. This is what the Master יהוה showed me, and see, a basket of summer fruit.
2. And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” And יהוה said to me, “The end has come upon my people Yisra’ĕl, no longer do I pardon them.
3. “And the songs of the hĕḵal shall be wailing in that day,” declares the Master יהוה, “many dead bodies everywhere, thrown into any place – hush!”
4. Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,
5. saying, “When does the New Moon pass so that we sell grain, and the Sabbath so that we trade our wheat, to make the ĕphah small and the sheqel large, and to falsify the scales by deceit,
6. to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
7. יהוה has sworn by the Excellency of Ya‛aqoḇ, “I shall never forget any of their works.