Amos:8

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* Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me : and , behold , there was a basket of summer fruit . * And he said , What dost thou see , ‘Amos ? And I said , A basket of summer fruit . Then said the Lord unto me , The end is come for my people Israel : I will not farther indulge them any more . * And the songs of the temple shall become a wailing on that day , saith the Lord Eternal : many shall be the dead bodies ; in every place shall men throw them down , Be silent . * Hear this , O ye that are greedy to swallow the needy , and to ruin the poor of the land , * Saying , When will the new moon be gone , that we may sell provision ? and the sabbath , that we may open the corn –warehouses , making the ephah small , and increasing the shekel , and cheating with deceitful balances ? * That we may buy the poor for silver , and the needy for a pair of shoes ; and even sell the refuse of the corn ? * Sworn hath the Lord by the excellency of Jacob , Surely I will not forget to eternity all their works . * Shall because of this the land not tremble , and mourn every one that dwelleth therein ? and shall it not rise up like a stream wholly , and roll onward and sink again like the stream of Egypt ? * And it shall come to pass on that day , saith the Lord Eternal , that I will cause the sun to set at noon , and I will bring darkness over the earth on a bright day ; * And I will change your feasts into mourning , and all your songs into lamentations ; and I will bring upon all loins sackcloth , and upon every head baldness ; and I will cause to mourn as one doth for an only son , and its end to be as a day of bitter . * Behold , days are coming , saith the Lord Eternal , when I will send a famine in the land , not a famine for bread , nor a thirst for water , but to hear the words of the Lord : * And they will wander about from sea to sea , and from the north even to the east , they will roam about to seek the word of the Lord ; but they shall not find it . * On that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst ; * Those that swear by the guilt of Samaria , and say , As thy god liveth , O Dan ; and , As liveth the worshipped idol of Beer –sheba ’, ––yea , they shall fall , and never rise up again .

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