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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, “The end[a] has come to my people Israel. I will not ignore their sins anymore. Their temple songs will become funeral songs.” This is what the Lord God said. “There will be dead bodies everywhere. In silence, people will take out the dead bodies and throw them onto the pile.[b]

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Listen to me, you who trample on helpless people.
    You are trying to destroy the poor of this country.

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  1. Amos 8:2 end This Hebrew word sounds like the word for “summer fruit.”
  2. Amos 8:3 In silence … the pile Or “People will be saying, ‘Hush!’” See Amos 6:10.

“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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  1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail