Bible Verses

I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your singing into crying. Everyone will mourn, dressed in sackcloth, and every head will be shaved. I will cause them to mourn, as for an only son, and bring their day to a painful end.”

Day of Restoration The Lord says: “On that day, I will cause the sun to set at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Shouldn’t the land tremble because of this, and all who live in it mourn, as it rises and heaves like the Nile and then settles back down like the river of Egypt?

The Lord, the pride of Jacob, has sworn by himself, “I shall never forget their deeds.”

and even sell the refuse along with the grain. We will buy the poor with money and the needy for a pair of sandals.”

You say, “When will the new moon or the Sabbath feast be over so we can open the store and sell our grain? Let us lower the measure and raise the price; let us cheat and tamper with the scales,

Listen to this, you who trample on the needy and push aside the weak of the land.

The songs of the palace will become wailings on that day, says the Lord; heaps of corpses everywhere, all cast out, in silence.”

and asked: “Amos, what do you see?” I replied: “A basket of ripe fruit.”Then the Lord said to me: “My people Israel is ripe for destruction; I will no longer forgive them.

Fourth Vision The Lord showed me a basket of ripe fruit