Amos:8

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* The Lord Jehovah made me see this : And behold , a basket of summer fruit ! * And He said , Amos , what do you see ? And I said , A basket of summer fruit . Then the LORD said to me , The end has come to My people Israel : I will never pass by them any more . * And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day , says the Lord Jehovah . The dead bodies [shall be ] many . In every place one shall throw [them ] out , saying , Hush ! * Hear this , you who trample the poor , even to make the humble of the land to fail , * saying , When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain ? And the sabbath , that we may set forth wheat , making the ephah small and the shekel great , and perverting the balances by deceit ; * that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals ; and sell the chaff of the wheat ? * The LORD has sworn by the Glory of Jacob , Surely I will never forget any of their works . * Shall not the land tremble for this , and all who dwell in it mourn ? And all of it shall rise up like the light . And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt . * And it shall be in that day , says the Lord Jehovah , I will cause the sun to go down at noon , and I will darken the earth in the light of day . * And I will turn your feast into mourning , and all your songs into weeping ; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins , and baldness on every head . And I will make it like the mourning of an only son , and the end of it like a bitter day . * Behold , the days come , says the Lord Jehovah , that I will send a famine in the land ; not [a famine ] of bread nor a thirst for water , but of hearing the words of the LORD . * And they shall wander from sea to sea , and from the north even to the east ; they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the LORD , and shall not find [it ]. * In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst . * They who swear by the sin of Samaria and say , [As ] your God lives , O Dan ; and , [As ] the way of Beer-sheba lives ; even they shall fall and never rise up again .

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