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8:1  This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
8:2  He asked, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of ripe fruit.” Then the Lord said to me: The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will never again pardon their offenses.
8:3  The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day; there will be corpses strewn everywhere. Be silent! Thus says the Lord God.
8:4  Hear this, you who crush the needy and trample upon the poor of the land.
8:5  “When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “so that we may sell our grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may market our wheat? Then we can make the bushel measure smaller and increase the shekel-weight by adjusting the scales fraudulently.
8:6  We can buy the poor man for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; we can even sell the refuse of the wheat.”
8:7  The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget any of their deeds.
8:8  Will not the land tremble because of this? Will not everyone mourn who dwells in it? The whole earth will rise like the Nile, swelling and then subsiding like the River of Egypt.
8:9  On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
8:10  I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. I will make you cover your loins with sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make it like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
8:11  The days are surely coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine upon the land, not a hunger for bread or a thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord.
8:12  People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, in search of the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.
8:13  On that day, fair maidens and young men will faint from thirst.
8:14  Those who swear by the shameful idol of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “By the sacred path to Beer-sheba,” will all fall and never rise again.