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Amos 7:16 (WEB)

Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
 

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Amos 7:17 (WEB)

Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
 

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Amos 8:1 (WEB)

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
 

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Amos 8:2 (WEB)

He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then Yahweh said to me,

“The end has come on my people Israel.
I will not again pass by them any more.
 

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Amos 8:3 (WEB)

The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
 

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Amos 8:4 (WEB)

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
 

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Amos 8:5 (WEB)

Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel large,
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
 

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Amos 8:6 (WEB);

that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
 

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Amos 8:7 (WEB);

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
 

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Amos 8:8 (WEB);

Won’t the land tremble for this,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it?
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
 

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Amos 8:9 (WEB)

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
 

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Amos 8:10 (WEB)

I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
and baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.
 

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Amos 8:11 (WEB)

Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
 

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Amos 8:12 (WEB)

They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word,
and will not find it.
 

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Amos 8:13 (WEB)

In that day the beautiful virgins
and the young men will faint for thirst.
 

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Amos 8:14 (WEB)

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’
and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’
they will fall, and never rise up again.”
 

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Amos 9:1 (WEB)

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them
in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there
shall not one of them escape.
 

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Amos 9:2 (WEB)

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
 

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Amos 9:3 (WEB)

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
 

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Amos 9:4 (WEB)

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.