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

(C)“The end[a] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.
(D)The songs of the temple[b] (E)shall become wailings[c] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(F)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(G)“Silence!”

Hear this, (H)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
  2. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  3. Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail

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