1 The vision of Israel's ruin
1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, 2 Ezek. 7:2The end is come upon my people of Israel; 2 ch. 7:8I will not again pass by them any more.
3 And ch. 5:23the songs of the temple [a]shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: 3 There shall be many dead bodies in every place; ch. 6:9,10they shall cast them forth [b]with silence.
4 Hear this, O ye that Ps. 14:4;Prov. 30:14swallow up the needy, 4 Even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the [c]new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? 5 And Neh. 13:15the sabbath, that we may [d]set forth wheat, 5 Mic. 6:10Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, 5 And [e]falsifying the balances by deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for ch. 2:6silver, 6 And the needy for a pair of shoes; 6 Yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 The Lord hath sworn by ch. 6:8the excellency of Jacob, 7 Surely Hos. 8:13I will never forget any of their works.
8 Hos. 4:3Shall not the land tremble for this, 8 And every one mourn that dwelleth therein? 8 And it shall rise up wholly as a flood; 8 And it shall be cast out and drowned, ch. 9:5as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass [f] 791. [or b.c. 784, or 771 or 770]in that day, saith the Lord God, 9 Job 5:14;Is. 13:10;& 59:9,10;Jer. 15:9;Mic. 3:6That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, 9 And I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, 10 And all your songs into lamentation; 10 Is. 15:2,3;Jer. 48:37;Ezek. 27:31And I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, 10 And baldness upon every head; 10 Jer. 6:26;Zech. 12:10And I will make it as the mourning of an only son, 10 And the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, 11 That I will send a famine in the land, 11 Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, 11 But 1 Sam. 3:1;Ps. 74:9;Ezek. 7:26of hearing the words of the Lord:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, 12 They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that Hos. 4:15swear by Deut. 9:21the sin of Samaria, 14 And say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; 14 And, The [g]manner of ch. 5:5Beer-sheba liveth; 14 Even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
15 The destruction of the sanctuary
