Amos 8:1 This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.

English Standard Version
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

New American Standard Bible
Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Lord GOD showed me this: A basket of summer fruit.

International Standard Version
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! A basket of summer fruit!

American Standard Version
Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Darby Bible Translation
Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.

Young's Literal Translation
Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.

Cross References

Jeremiah 24:1
The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Amos 7:17
Therefore thus said the LORD; Your wife shall be an harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Amos 8:2
And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD to me, The end is come on my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:1-3 Amos saw a basket of summer fruit gathered, and ready to be eaten; which signified, that the people were ripe for destruction, that the year of God's patience was drawing towards a conclusion. Such summer fruits will not keep till winter, but must be used at once. Yet these judgments shall not draw from them any acknowledgement, either of God's righteousness or their own unrighteousness. Sinners put off repentance from day to day, because they think the Lord thus delays his judgments.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 8

Am 8:1-14. Vision of a Basket of Summer Fruit Symbolical, of Israel's End. Resuming the Series of Symbols Interrupted by Amaziah, Amos Adds a Fourth. The Avarice of the Oppressors of the Poor: The Overthrow of the Nation: The Wish for the Means of Religious Counsel, when There Shall Be a Famine of the Word.

1. summer fruit—Hebrew, kitz. In Am 8:2 "end" is in Hebrew, keetz. The similarity of sounds implies that, as the summer is the end of the year and the time of the ripeness of fruits, so Israel is ripe for her last punishment, ending her national existence. As the fruit is plucked when ripe from the tree, so Israel from her land.