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Thus hath the Lord[H136]GOD[H3069]shewed[H7200] unto me: and behold a basket[H3619] of summer fruit[H7019].
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And he said[H559], Amos[H5986], what seest[H7200] thou? And I said[H559], A basket[H3619] of summer fruit[H7019]. Then said[H559] the LORD[H3068] unto me, The end[H7093] is come[H935] upon my people[H5971] of Israel[H3478]; I will not again[H3254]pass[H5674] by them any more.
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And the songs[H7892] of the temple[H1964] shall be howlings[H3213] in that day[H3117], saith[H5002] the Lord[H136]GOD[H3069]: there shall be many[H7227] dead bodies[H6297] in every place[H4725]; they shall cast them forth[H7993] with silence[H2013].
4Hear[H8085] this, O ye that swallow up[H7602] the needy[H34], even to make[H7673] the poor[H6041] of the land[H776] to fail[H7673],
5Saying[H559], When will the new moon[H2320] be gone[H5674], that we may sell[H7666]corn?[H7668] and the sabbath[H7676], that we may set forth[H6605]wheat[H1250], making the ephah[H374]small[H6994], and the shekel[H8255]great[H1431], and falsifying[H5791] the balances[H3976] by deceit?[H4820]
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That we may buy[H7069] the poor[H1800] for silver[H3701], and the needy[H34] for a pair of shoes[H5275]; yea, and sell[H7666] the refuse[H4651] of the wheat?[H1250]
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The LORD[H3068] hath sworn[H7650] by the excellency[H1347] of Jacob[H3290], Surely I will never[H5331]forget[H7911] any of their works[H4639].
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Shall not the land[H776]tremble[H7264] for this, and every one mourn[H56] that dwelleth[H3427] therein? and it shall rise up[H5927] wholly as a flood[H2975]; and it shall be cast out[H1644] and drowned[H8257], as by the flood[H216] of Egypt[H4714].
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And it shall come to pass in that day[H3117], saith[H5002] the Lord[H136]GOD[H3069], that I will cause the sun[H8121] to go down[H935] at noon[H6672], and I will darken[H2821] the earth[H776] in the clear[H216]day[H3117]:
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And I will turn[H2015] your feasts[H2282] into mourning[H60], and all your songs[H7892] into lamentation[H7015]; and I will bring up[H5927]sackcloth[H8242] upon all loins[H4975], and baldness[H7144] upon every head[H7218]; and I will make[H7760] it as the mourning[H60] of an only[H3173] son, and the end[H319] thereof as a bitter[H4751]day[H3117].
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Behold, the days[H3117]come[H935], saith[H5002] the Lord[H136]GOD[H3069], that I will send[H7971] a famine[H7458] in the land[H776], not a famine[H7458] of bread[H3899], nor a thirst[H6772] for water[H4325], but of hearing[H8085] the words[H1697] of the LORD[H3068]:
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And they shall wander[H5128] from sea[H3220] to sea[H3220], and from the north[H6828] even to the east[H4217], they shall run to and fro[H7751] to seek[H1245] the word[H1697] of the LORD[H3068], and shall not find[H4672] it.
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In that day[H3117] shall the fair[H3303]virgins[H1330] and young men[H970]faint[H5968] for thirst[H6772].
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They that swear[H7650] by the sin[H819] of Samaria[H8111], and say[H559], Thy god[H430], O Dan[H1835], liveth[H2416]; and, The manner[H1870] of Beersheba[H884]liveth[H2416]; even they shall fall[H5307], and never rise up[H6965] again.