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Amos 8:2-4
Evangelical Heritage Version

2 Then he asked, “What do you see, Amos?”

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

Then the Lord said to me, “The end is coming upon my people Israel.[a] I will no longer overlook their sin. 3 The singing women of the palace[b] will wail on that day, declares the Lord God. Many corpses—all over! Silence!”

Fraud and Hypocrisy on Holy Days

4 Listen to this, you who trample on the needy
        to wipe out the oppressed from the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for summer fruit and end sound alike. Just as the summer fruit is ripe, Israel is ripe for judgment.
  2. Amos 8:3 Or the songs of the temple
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