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The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day;
    there will be corpses strewn everywhere.
    Be silent! Thus says the Lord God.

Listen, You Who Crush the Poor

Hear this, you who crush the needy
    and trample upon the poor of the land.
“When will the new moon be over,” you ask,
    “so that we may sell our grain,
and the Sabbath,
    so that we may market our wheat?
Then we can make the bushel measure smaller
    and increase the shekel-weight
    by adjusting the scales fraudulently.

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“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](A) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(B)

Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor(C) of the land,(D)

saying,

“When will the New Moon(E) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market(F) wheat?”(G)
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating(H) with dishonest scales,(I)

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Footnotes

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