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Vad ser du, Amos? frågade Herren.En korg full med mogen frukt, svarade jag.Då sa Herren: Den här frukten föreställer mitt folk Israel moget för straff. Jag tänker inte uppskjuta straffet längre.

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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

And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me:

(A)“The end has come upon My people Israel;
(B)I will not pass by them anymore.
And (C)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
(D)They shall be thrown out in silence.”

Hear this, you who [a]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:4 Or trample on, Amos 2:7