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This vision was revealed to me by the Lord God: here is a basket with ripe fruits. |
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And he said, What do you see, Amos? I answered: a basket of ripe fruit. Then the Lord said to me: The end of my people, Israel, hath come: I will not again forgive him. |
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The songs of the palace will turn into sobbing that day, says the Lord God; Many will be corpses, in every place they will throw them in silence.
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Hear this, hungry to swallow the poor and destroy the poor; |
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You who say: 'sometime the new moon will pass to sell us bread, and the Sabbath to open the granaries, to reduce the measure, to increase the price of the shekel and to deceive the unjust balances, |
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To buy the poor for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes, and to sift out the bread from the grain. " |
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The Lord swore by the glory of Jacob: for in truth I will never forget one of their works! |
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Will not the earth be moved from this, and everyone who lives on it will not weep? She will run wild like a river, and will rise and fall like the Egyptian river. |
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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God: I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the bright day. |
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And I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs shall be weeping, and I will put sackcloth on all your loins and weep on all sorts of heads; And I will make a lamentation, as the only son, and the end of it will be like a bitter day.
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, when I will send a famine to the land, - not the famine of bread, nor the thirst of water, but thirsting to hear the words of the Lord. |
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And they shall walk from sea to sea, and to wander from north to east, seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it. |
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In that day, beautiful maidens and young men will thirst from thirst, |
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Who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: 'Your god lives, Dan! And the way to Beersheba is alive! ' "They will fall and will not rise." |
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