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He asked, “What do you see, Amos?”

“A basket of ripe summer fruit,” I answered.

Then Yahweh said to me, “My people Israel are now ripe. I will no longer overlook what they have done. On that day the songs of the temple will become loud cries,” declares Adonay Yahweh. “There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Hush!”

Listen to this, those who trample on the needy
    and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.

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“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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Footnotes

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