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And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”[a] Then the Lord said to me,

“The end[b] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.
The songs of the temple[c] shall become wailings in that day,”
                says the Lord God;
“the dead bodies shall be many;
    in every place they shall be cast out in silence.”[d]

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy,
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 Heb qayits
  2. Amos 8:2 Heb qets
  3. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  4. Amos 8:3 Or be silent!

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