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He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me,

    “The end has come upon my people Israel;
        I will never again forgive them.
    On that day, the people will wail the temple songs,”
        says the Lord God;
    “there will be many corpses,
    thrown about everywhere.[a]
        Silence.”

Judgment on oppressors and hypocrites

    Hear this, you who trample on the needy and destroy
        the poor of the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Heb uncertain

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