He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” (A)

I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”[a](B)

The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel;(C) I will no longer spare them.(D) In that day the temple[b] songs(E) will become wailing”(F)—this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!(G) Silence!” (H)

Hear this, you who trample on the needy(I)
and do away with the poor of the land,(J)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 In Hb the word for summer fruit sounds like the word for end.
  2. 8:3 Or palace

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