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And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then said the LORD to me, “The end has come upon my people of Israel. I will pass by them no more.

“And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings on that day,” said the LORD God. “Many dead bodies shall be in every place. They shall cast them forth with silence.”

“Hear this, O you who swallow up the poor and may make the needy of the land fail,

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He asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’(A)

I replied, ‘A basket of summer fruit.’[a](B)

The Lord said to me, ‘The end has come for my people Israel;(C) I will no longer spare them.(D) In that day the temple[b] songs(E) will become wailing’(F) – this is the Lord God’s declaration. ‘Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!(G) Silence! ’(H)

Hear this, you who trample on the needy(I)
and do away with the poor of the land,(J)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 In Hb the word for summer fruit sounds like the word for end.
  2. 8:3 Or palace