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Amos 8

Basket of Fruit and Israel's Captivity

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Thus the Lord  1GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.

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He said, "What do you see, Amos?" And  aI said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The  bend has come for My people Israel. I will  1 cspare them no longer.

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1The  asongs of the palace will turn to  bwailing in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "Many will be the  ccorpses; in every place  2they will cast them forth  3in silence."

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Hear this, you who  1 atrample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

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saying, "When will the  anew moon  1be over, So that we may sell grain, And the  bsabbath, that we may open the wheat market, To make the  2bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to  ccheat with  3dishonest scales,

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So as to  abuy the helpless for  1money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"

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The LORD has  asworn by the  bpride of Jacob, "Indeed, I will  cnever forget any of their deeds.

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"Because of this will not the land  aquake And everyone who dwells in it  bmourn? Indeed, all of it will  crise up like the Nile, And it will be tossed about And subside like the Nile of Egypt.

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"It will come about in that day," declares the Lord GOD, "That I will make the  asun go down at noon And  bmake the earth dark in  1broad daylight.

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"Then I will  aturn your festivals into mourning And all your songs into  1lamentation; And I will bring  bsackcloth on everyone's loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it  clike a time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

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"Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather  afor hearing the words of the LORD.

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"People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to  aseek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it.

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"In that day the beautiful  avirgins And the young men will  bfaint from thirst.

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"As for those who swear by the  1 aguilt of Samaria, Who say, `As your god lives, O  bDan,' And, `As the way of  cBeersheba lives,' They will fall and  dnot rise again."



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