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This is what the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

And He said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel. I will not spare them any longer.

And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

"The songs of the palace will turn to wailing on that day," declares the Lord GOD. "The corpses will be many; in every place they will throw them out. Hush!"

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God : there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.