10And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
Amos 8 pivots on a devastating vision: a basket of summer fruit, signaling that Israel's time is ripe — and running out. The Lord declares He will no longer overlook their exploitation of the poor, their dishonest scales, and their hollow religious observance. The chapter crescen
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