1Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
2And He saith, `What art thou seeing, Amos?` and I say, `A basket of summer-fruit.` And Jehovah saith unto me: `The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.
3And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw -- hush!
4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
5Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
6To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
7Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.
