Amos 8:9-10. God is promising that he sees the injustice being done by those who "trample upon the needy" (Amons 8:4) and "buy the poor for silver" (Amos 8:6), and the day is coming when the land will tremble on this account (Amos 8:8). On that day, God says "I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning ... your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins ... I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day."

What an appropriate reading for the day after Easter! The faithful have just celebrated the Resurrection of the only Son after mourning his death. Our mourning has been changed to joy! But so many do not know this, they do not know the Son or the Father. So many are being bought for silver and trampled upon, while so many others are doing the buying and the trampling! God sees what is going on. He sees what's happening in corporate and political America, where people are treated as numbers on a spreadsheet and their value reduced to what they can, will, or can be forced to do or buy; he sees what's going on in war-torn countries where tyrants march over people's lives, destroying all in their paths in service of their own power or ego or misguided ideas of what is "right"; he sees what's happening in the lives of children who are being exploited for the cultural, political, or sexual whims of adults in their lives.

Everyone of these injustices is seen by God, every injustice everywhere is seen by God, and Injustice does reach a breaking point, it reaches the time when God sends salvation for those exploited, but that salvation always comes at a great cost (such as the death of an only Son). So we will eventually feel this again. Our songs will turn to lamentations, the earth will darken, we will be in mourning, until enough people repent of their sins and realize that the only way out of this Injustice is by following God.