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\v 1 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, a basket of summer fruit!
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2016-08-08 18:52:12 +00:00
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\v 2 He said, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me,
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2016-04-01 21:07:38 +00:00
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\q "The end has come for my people Israel;
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\q I will spare them no longer.
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\v 3 The songs of the temple will become wailings.
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2016-09-27 08:55:02 +00:00
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\q In that day—this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.
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\q The corpses will be many,
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\q in every place they will throw them out in silence!"
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2016-11-04 21:12:37 +00:00
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\v 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy
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\q and remove the poor of the land.
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\v 5 They say,
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\q "When will the new moon be over,
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\q so we can sell grain again?
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\q And the Sabbath, when will it be over,
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\q so that we can market wheat?
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\q We will make the measure small
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\q and increase the price,
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\q as we cheat with false scales,
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\v 6 So that we can sell bad wheat and buy the poor for silver,
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\q the needy for a pair of sandals."
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\v 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their actions."
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\v 8 Will not the land quake for this,
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\q and every one who lives in it mourn?
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\q All of it will rise up like the Nile River,
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\q and it will be tossed about and sink again,
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2016-04-12 20:19:01 +00:00
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\q like the river of Egypt.
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\v 9 "It will come in that day
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\q —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—
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\q that I will make the sun set at noon,
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\q and I will darken the earth at daylight.
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\v 10 I will turn your festivals into mourning
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\q and all your songs into lamentation.
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\q I will make all of you wear sackcloth
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\q and have baldness on every head.
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\q I will make it like mourning for an only son,
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\q and a bitter day to its end.
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\v 11 Look, the days are coming
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\q —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—
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\q when I will send a famine in the land,
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\q not a famine for bread,
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\q nor of thirst for water,
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\q but for hearing the words of Yahweh.
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\v 12 They will stagger from sea to sea;
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\q they will run from the north to the east
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\q to seek the word of Yahweh,
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\q but they will not find it.
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\v 13 In that day the beautiful virgins
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\q and the young men will faint from thirst.
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\q
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\v 14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria
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\q and say, 'As your god lives, Dan'
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\q and, 'As the god of Beersheba lives'—
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\q they will fall and never rise again."
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