Amos 8:1 - Forerunner Commentary

Amos 8:1

Vision of the Summer Fruit

1 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.

2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me:
^a“The end has come upon My people Israel;
^bI will not pass by them anymore.

3 And ^athe songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
^bThey shall be thrown out in silence.”

4 Hear this, you who¹ swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,

5 Saying:
“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may¹ sell grain?
And ^athe Sabbath,
That we may trade wheat?
^bMaking the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by ^cdeceit,

6 That we may buy the poor for ^asilver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”

7 The Lord has sworn by ^athe pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^bI will never forget any of their works.

8 ^aShall the land not tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
All of it shall swell like¹ the River,
Heave and subside
^bLike the River of Egypt.

9 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
^a“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in¹ broad daylight;

10 I will turn your feasts into ^amourning,
^bAnd all your songs into lamentation;
^cI will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.

11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But ^aof hearing the words of the Lord.

12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall ^anot find it.

Verse Comparison: Amos 8:1

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

Amplified® Bible
THUS THE Lord God showed to me, and behold, a basket of [ripe and therefore soon to perish] summer fruit.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD God showed me a basket of ripe fruit

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

Good News Bible
I had another vision from the Sovereign LORD. In it I saw a basket of fruit.

King James Version
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and 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.

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

New King James Version
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there appeared a basket of summer fruit.

Revised Standard Version
Thus the Lord GOD 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.

New English Translation
The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw¹ a basket of summer fruit.²

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