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He asked, “‘Amos, what do you see?” I answered, “A basket of summer [a] fruit.” Then Adonai said to me,

“The end [b] has come for my people,
I will never again overlook their offenses.
When that time comes, the songs in the temple
will be wailings,” says Adonai Elohim.
“There will be many dead bodies;
everywhere silence will reign.”

Listen, you who swallow the needy
and destroy the poor of the land!

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 Hebrew: kayitz
  2. Amos 8:2 Hebrew: ketz

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