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He asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’(A)

I replied, ‘A basket of summer fruit.’[a](B)

The Lord said to me, ‘The end has come for my people Israel;(C) I will no longer spare them.(D)

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  1. 8:2 In Hb the word for summer fruit sounds like the word for end.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning(A)
and all your songs into lamentation;(B)
I will cause everyone[a] to wear sackcloth(C)
and every head to be shaved.(D)
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son(E)
and its outcome like a bitter day.

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  1. 8:10 Lit every waist