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Amos 8: 1-7

The Basket of Fruit

8This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.* 2He said, ‘Amos, what do you see?’ And I said, ‘A basket of summer fruit.’* Then the Lord said to me,
‘The end* has come upon my people Israel;
   I will never again pass them by.
3 The songs of the temple* shall become wailings on that day,’

says the Lord God;
‘the dead bodies shall be many,
   cast out in every place. Be silent!’


4 Hear this, you that trample on the needy,
   and bring to ruin the poor of the land,
5 saying, ‘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 practise deceit with false balances,
6 buying the poor for silver
   and the needy for a pair of sandals,
   and selling the sweepings of the wheat.’


7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.

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