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Amos 8:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. "

Amos 8:2

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

2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

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

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

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Amos 7:8

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"The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more."

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Jeremiah 6:9

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"The LORD of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”"

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Jeremiah 8:13

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"“‘I will utterly consume them, says the LORD. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’”"

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Ezra 8:12

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"Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males."

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Tobit 2:6

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"and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said, “Your feasts will be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation."

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Amos 7:11

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"For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”"

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Amos 8:1

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

Amos 8:3

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

Amos 8:4

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

Amos 8:5

"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;"

Amos 8:6

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

Amos 8:7

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

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