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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

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.

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.

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

For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king"s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.

And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.

So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.