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Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold a basket of late figs.
2.
And He said: What do you see, Amos? And I said, "A basket of late figs." And the Lord said to me: The end has come to My people Israel. I will no longer pardon them.
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And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says the Lord God: corpses shall increase; everywhere "Cast away, remove!"
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Hearken to this, you who swallow up the needy, and to cut off the poor of the land.
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Saying, "When will the month be delayed, so that we will sell grain, and the Sabbatical Year, so that we will open [our stores of] grain, to make the ephah smaller and to make the shekel larger, and to pervert deceitful scales.
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To purchase the poor with money, and the needy in order to inherit them, and the refuse of the grain we will sell."
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The Lord swore by the pride of Jacob: I will never forget any of their deeds.
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Shall the land not quake for this, and shall all its inhabitants [not] be destroyed? Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the rain cloud, and it shall cast up and sink like the river of Egypt.
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And it shall come to pass on that day, says the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to set at midday, and I will darken the land on a sunny day.
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And I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and I bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end is like a bitter day.
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Behold, days are coming, says the Lord God, and I will send famine into the land, not a famine for bread nor a thirst for water, but to hear the word of the Lord.
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And they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
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On that day, the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint of thirst.
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Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, "As your god lives, O Dan," and "As the road to Beersheba exists," shall fall and no longer rise.
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