Chapter 8. Thus the Lord God showed me Behold a basket of summer fruit And he said Amos what do you see So I said a basket of summer fruit Then the Lord said to me The end has come upon My People Israel I will not pass by them anymore And the songs of the temple shall be Wailing in that day Says the Lord God Many dead bodies everywhere they shall Be thrown out in silence Hear this you who swallow up the needy And make the poor of the land fail Saying When will the new moon be passed that we May sell grain and the Sabbath that we May trade wheat making the IFA small and The shekel large Falsifying the scales by deceit that we May buy the poor for silver and the Needy for a pair of sandals even sell The bad wheat The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob Surely I will never forget any of their Works Shall the land not tremble for this And everyone mourn who dwells in it All of it shall swell like the river he Even subside Like the river of Egypt And it shall come to pass in that day
Says the Lord God That I will make the sun go down at noon And I will darken the Earth in broad Daylight I will turn your feasts into mourning And all your songs into lamentation I will bring sackcloth on every waste And boldness on every head I will make it like morning for an only Son and its end like a bitter day Behold the days are coming says the Lord God That I will send a famine on the land Not a famine of bread nor a thirst for Water But of hearing the words of the Lord Facial Wander from sea to Sea and from North to East They shall run to and fro seeking the Word of the Lord but shall not find it In that day the fair virgins and strong Young men shall faint from thirst Those who swear by the sin of Samaria Who say As your God lives o'dan and as the way Of Beersheba lives They shall fall and never rise again