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Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer -fruit.
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And He saith , `What art thou seeing , Amos?' and I say , `A basket of summer -fruit.' And Jehovah saith unto me: `The end hath come unto My people Israel , I do not add any more to pass over to it.
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And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah , Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw -- hush!
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Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy , To cause to cease the poor of the land ,
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Saying, When doth the new moon pass , And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath , and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah , And to make great the shekel , And to use perversely balances of deceit .
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To purchase with money the poor , And the needy for a pair of sandals , Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
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Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob : `I forget not for ever any of their works .
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For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk , Like the flood of Egypt .
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And it hath come to pass in that day , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah , I have caused the sun to go in at noon , And caused darkness on the land in a day of light ,
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And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation , And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins , And on every head -- baldness , And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
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Lo, days are coming , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah , And I have sent a famine into the land , Not a famine of bread , nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah .
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And they have wandered from sea unto sea , And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah , And they do not find .
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In that day faint do the fair virgins , And the young men, with thirst.
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Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria , And have said , Live doth thy god , O Dan , And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'