OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 2

Amos 8:2

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He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the LORD said to me,

“The end has come on my people Israel.

I will not again pass by them any more.

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Amos 8:1–5

Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

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He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the LORD said to me,

“The end has come on my people Israel.

I will not again pass by them any more.

The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD.

“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,

and cause the poor of the land to fail,

saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?

And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,

making the ephah small, and the shekel large,

and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

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