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He said: “Amos, what do you see?”

“A basket of summer fruit,” I said.
Then Adonai said to me:
“The end has come to My people Israel.
I will not again pass over them.
The songs of the palace will become howls in that day.”
It is a declaration of my Lord Adonai.
“So many corpses flung everywhere! Hush!
Hear this, you who trample the poor,
destroying the afflicted of the land

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“What do you see,(A) Amos?(B)” he asked.

“A basket(C) of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(D)

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](E) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(F)

Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor(G) of the land,(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail