Amos 8:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³The songs of the temple^[a] shall become wailings in that day,”
says the Lord God;
“the dead bodies shall be many,
cast out in every place. Be silent!”

⁴Hear this, you that trample on the needy,
    and bring to ruin the poor of the land,
⁵saying, “When will the new moon be over
    so that we may sell grain;
and the sabbath,
    so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah small and the shekel great,
    and practice deceit with false balances,

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Amos 8:3 Or palace

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

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