Amos 8:1-3 NIV

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Amos 8:1-3

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. “What do you see, Amos?” he asked.

“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

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