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He said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me, “An end[a] has come for my people Israel, because I will not overlook their sins anymore.

“On that day the palace songs will become funeral songs,” says the Lord God. “There will be dead bodies thrown everywhere! Silence!”

Listen to me, you who walk on helpless people,
    you who are trying to destroy the poor people of this country, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 end The Hebrew word for “end” sounds like the Hebrew word for “summer fruit.”

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