Amos 8:4-10

4Listen to this, those who trample on the needy and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.

5You say to yourselves, “When will the New Moon Festival be over so that we can sell more grain? When will the day of rest—a holy day, be over so that we can sell more wheat? We can shrink the size of the bushel baskets, increase the cost, and cheat with dishonest scales.

6We can buy the poor with money and the needy for a pair of sandals. We can sell the husks mixed in with the wheat.”

7The Lord has sworn an oath by Jacob’s pride: “I will never forget anything that they have done.”

8The land will tremble because of this. Everyone who lives in it will mourn. The entire land will rise like the Nile, be tossed about, and then sink like Egypt’s river.

9On that day, declares the Almighty Lord, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

10I will turn your festivals into funerals and all your songs into funeral songs. I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist and shave everyone’s head. I will make that day seem like a funeral for an only child, and its end will be bitter.