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Basket of Fruit and Israel's Captivity

¹ This is what the Lord ^(F1)GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.² And He said, "What do you see, Amos?" And ^(C1)I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The ^(C2)end has come for My people Israel. I will not ^(F1)(C3)spare them any longer.³ "^(F1)The ^(C1)songs of the palace will turn to ^(C2)wailing on that day," declares the Lord GOD. "The ^(C3)corpses will be many; in every place ^(F2)they will throw them out. ^(F3)Hush!"

⁴ Hear this, you who ^(F1)(C1)trample the needy, to put an end to the humble of the land,⁵ saying,

"When will the ^(C1)new moon ^(F1)be over,
So that we may sell grain;
And the ^(C2)Sabbath, so that we may open the wheat market,
To make the ^(F2)ephah smaller and the ^(F3)shekel bigger,
And to ^(C3)cheat with dishonest scales,

⁶ So as to ^(C1)buy the helpless for ^(F1)money,
And the needy for a pair of sandals,
And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"

⁷ The LORD has ^(C1)sworn by the ^(C2)pride of Jacob,
"Indeed, I will ^(C3)never forget any of their deeds.

⁸ "Because of this will the land not ^(C1)quake,
And everyone who lives in it ^(C2)mourn?
Indeed, all of it will ^(C3)rise up like the Nile,
And it will be tossed about
And subside like the Nile of Egypt.

⁹ "And it will come about on that day," declares the Lord GOD,
"That I will make the ^(C1)sun go down at noon,
And ^(C2)make the earth dark in ^(F1)broad daylight.

¹⁰ "Then I will ^(C1)turn your festivals into mourning,
And all your songs into songs of mourning;
And I will put ^(C2)sackcloth around everyone's waist,
And ^(F1)baldness on every head.
And I will make it ^(C3)like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

¹¹ "Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD,
"When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
But rather ^(C1)for hearing the words of the LORD.

¹² "People will stagger from sea to sea
And from the north even to the east;
They will roam about to ^(C1)seek the word of the LORD,
But they will not find it.

¹³ "On that day the beautiful ^(C1)virgins
And the young men will ^(C2)faint from thirst.

¹⁴ "As for those who swear by the ^(F1)(C1)guilt of Samaria,
And say, 'As your god lives, ^(C2)Dan,'
And, 'As the way of ^(C3)Beersheba lives,'
They will fall and ^(C4)not rise again."