Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. New Living Translation Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit. English Standard Version This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. Berean Standard Bible This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. King James Bible Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. New King James Version Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. New American Standard Bible This is what the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit. NASB 1995 Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit. NASB 1977 Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit. Legacy Standard Bible Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit. Amplified Bible Thus the Lord GOD showed me [a vision], and behold, there was a basket of [overripe] summer fruit. Christian Standard Bible The Lord GOD showed me this: a basket of summer fruit. Holman Christian Standard Bible The Lord GOD showed me this: A basket of summer fruit. American Standard Version Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Thus The Lord of Lords has shown me, and behold, the sign of the end! Brenton Septuagint Translation And behold a fowler's basket. Contemporary English Version The LORD God showed me a basket of ripe fruit Douay-Rheims Bible These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit. English Revised Version Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit. GOD'S WORD® Translation This is what the Almighty LORD showed me: a basket of ripe summer fruit. Good News Translation I had another vision from the Sovereign LORD. In it I saw a basket of fruit. International Standard Version This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! A basket of summer fruit! JPS Tanakh 1917 Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit. Literal Standard Version Thus has Lord YHWH showed me, and behold, a basket of summer-fruit. Majority Standard Bible This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. New American Bible This is what the Lord GOD showed me: a basket of end-of-summer fruit. NET Bible The sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit. New Revised Standard Version This is what the Lord GOD showed me—a basket of summer fruit. New Heart English Bible This is what the LORD showed me: And look, a basket of summer fruit. Webster's Bible Translation Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. World English Bible Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. Young's Literal Translation Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Basket of Ripe Fruit1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. 2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”… Cross References Jeremiah 24:1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD. Amos 7:17 Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.'" Amos 8:2 "Amos, what do you see?" He asked. "A basket of summer fruit," I replied. So the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them." Treasury of Scripture Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. Amos 7:1,4,7 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings… Jump to Previous Basket Fruit Ripe Shew Shewed Showed Shown Sovereign SummerJump to Next Basket Fruit Ripe Shew Shewed Showed Shown Sovereign SummerAmos 8 1. By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end.4. Oppression is reproved. 11. A famine of the word of God threatened. (1, 2) The visions are resumed as though the priest at Bethel had trembled at the presence of Amos, and had ceased to persecute him. There is a remarkable play of words, qaits being the Hebrew for "summer fruit," and qets for "end." It is harvest time, the end of the agricultural year. Israel is ripe for his final doom, that shall sweep down like a scythe. For "pass by" see on Amos 7:8.Verses 1-14. - § 5. In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed of the chieftains (vers. 4-10), and warns them that those who despise the Word of God shall some day suffer from a famine of the Word (vers. 11-14). Verse 1. - A basket of summer fruit; Septuagint, ἄγγος ἰξευτοῦ, "a fowler's vessel;" Vulgate, uncinus pomorum, which Jerome explains," Sicut uncino rami arborum detrahuntur ad poma carpenda, ita ego proximum captivitatis tempus attraxi." The word chelub is taken to mean "a basket of wickerwork;" it is used for "a cage" in Jeremiah 5:27, but is found nowhere else. The gathering of fruit was the last harvest of the year, and thus fitly typified the final punishment of Israel. This is set forth by the play on the word in the next verse. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew This is whatכֹּ֥ה (kōh) Adverb Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now the Lord אֲדֹנָ֣י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 136: The Lord GOD יְהוִ֑ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3069: YHWH showed me: הִרְאַ֖נִי (hir·’a·nî) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular Strong's 7200: To see I saw וְהִנֵּ֖ה (wə·hin·nêh) Conjunctive waw | Interjection Strong's 2009: Lo! behold! a basket כְּל֥וּב (kə·lūḇ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3619: A bird-trap, a basket of summer fruit. קָֽיִץ׃ (qā·yiṣ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7019: To awake Links Amos 8:1 NIVAmos 8:1 NLT Amos 8:1 ESV Amos 8:1 NASB Amos 8:1 KJV Amos 8:1 BibleApps.com Amos 8:1 Biblia Paralela Amos 8:1 Chinese Bible Amos 8:1 French Bible Amos 8:1 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Amos 8:1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold (Amo. Am) |
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