Visions
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📚This is what the Lord God showed me✭: I saw a basket of summer fruit.2 📚✭And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit”. Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. And I will not pass by them any longer. 3 📚And the songs of the temple will become wailing sounds✭ in that day, says the Lord God. There will be many dead bodies everywhere. They will throw them out in silence✭”.
4 📚✭Hear this, you who swallow up
the needy, and do away
with the poor of the land,
5 📚Saying, “When will the new moon
be gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may
set out wheat for sale,
making the ephah small,
and the shekel great,
and falsifying the balances✭
by deceit,
6 📚that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair
of shoes, yes,
and sell the refuse of the wheat?”
7 📚The LORD has sworn by the excellence of Jacob✭, “Surely I will never forget✭ any of their deeds.
8 📚✭Will the land not tremble for this,
and everyone mourn who lives in it?
And all of it will swell like the river
Nile;
and it will be tossed up and subside,
like the river of Egypt.
9 📚✭“And this will come about in that day, says the Lord God:
I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and darken the earth in
broad daylight.
10 📚✭And I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamenting,
and bring sackcloth✭ on every waist,
and baldness✭ on every head,
and make it like the mourning
for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.
11 📚“See, the days come”,
says the Lord God,
“when I will send a famine on the land;
not a famine of bread,
or a thirst for water, but of hearing
the words of the LORD✭.
12 📚✭And they will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north to the east,
running here and there to seek the word
of the LORD, and will not find it.
13 📚“In that day the beautiful virgins
and young men will faint for thirst✭.
14 📚Those who swear by the sin✭ of Samaria,
and say, ‘Your god✭, O Dan✭, lives!’
and, ‘The way of Beersheba✭ lives!’ will fall✭,
and never rise up again”.