Amos 8:4-10

4Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land

5saying: ‘When will the New Moon be over, so we may sell grain? Or Shabbat, so we may open the wheat market? —Let’s reduce the ephah measure and increase the shekel, cheat with deceitful balances,

6buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals! We’ll even sell the refuse of the grain!’”

7Adonai swore by the Pride of Jacob: “Never will I forget all their deeds!

8Will not the land tremble over this? Will not all who dwell in it mourn? Yes, it will rise up like all the Nile —it will surge and sink again like the Nile of Egypt.”

9“It will be in that day” —declares my Lord Adonai— “I will make the sun go down at noon, yes, I will darken the earth in daylight.

10I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into a dirge. I will pull up sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son— its end a bitter day.”