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Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass over them any more.
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And the cantors of the temple shall howl in that day, said the Lord GOD;
there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast
them forth with silence.
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Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and cut off the poor of the land,
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saying, When the month is over, we will sell the wheat; and after the sabbath day we will open
the storehouse of bread, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit;
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that we may buy the poor for money and the needy for a pair of shoes and sell the refuse of the wheat.