Amos 8:1
Verse 1 of 14. The 8th of 9 chapters in Amos, in The Minor Prophets.
1Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2And 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.
3And 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.
4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5Saying, 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?
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Amos 8:1 in the World English Bible
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Matthew Henry on Amos 8:1
The approach of the threatened ruin is represented by a basket of summer-fruit which Amos saw in vision; for the Lord showed it to him (v. 1) and obliged him to take notice of it (v. 2): Amos, what seest thou?
Read Matthew Henry on Amos 8:1–3: The Vision of Summer Fruit. (b. c. 785.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.