1 Against the rulers of Israel. 7 The Lord sweareth. 11 The famine of the word of God.

Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me, and behold, a basket of summer fruit.

And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of [a]summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel, I will pass by them no more.

And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies shall be in every place: they shall cast them forth with [b]silence.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 Which signified the ripeness of their sins, and the readiness of God’s judgments.
  2. Amos 8:3 There shall be none left to mourn for them.

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