1Yahweh showed me in a vision a basket full of ripe fruit.
2He asked me, “Amos, what do you see?”
3Soon, instead of singing in the temple, they will be wailing. There will be corpses everywhere [HYP]. So, remain silent (OR, Everyone will be silent). These things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!”
4It is as though you people trample on needy people,
5You habitually say,
6You sell wheat that you have swept up from the floor, and as a result it is mixed with dirt.
7Yahweh has declared, “Although you are very proud of being descendants [MTY] of Jacob, I solemnly declare that I will not forget the evil things that you have done.
8Because of those evil things, your country will certainly [RHQ] soon be shaken,
9On the day when I punish my people,
10I will cause your religious celebrations to become times when you mourn;
11And Yahweh our God says this:
12People will stagger from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,
13At that time,
14Those who ◄make oaths/solemnly promise to do something► using the names of their shameful gods of Samaria,