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1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! A basket of summer fruit! 2 And he was asking, |What do you see, Amos?| I answered, |A basket of summer fruit.| Then the LORD told me, |The end approaches for my people Israel. I will no longer spare them. 3 At that time,| declares the Lord GOD, |the temple songs will be wailing. Many bodies will accumulate everywhere. 4 |Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail, 5 and who are saying, 'When will the New Moon fade so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath conclude so we may market winnowed wheat?— shortchanging the measure, raising the price, falsifying the scales by treachery, 6 buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.' Amos 8:1-6, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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