Basket of Fruit and Israel’s Captivity
1 Thus the Lord (a)God showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
2 He said, “What do you see, Amos?” And (A)I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The (B)end has come for My people Israel. I will (b)(C)spare them no longer.
3 (c)The (D)songs of the palace will turn to (E)wailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the (F)corpses; in every place (d)they will cast them forth (e)in silence.”
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“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather (W)for hearing the words of the Lord.
12 “When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather (W)for hearing the words of the Lord.
“People will stagger from sea to sea
And from the north even to the east;
They will go to and fro to (X)seek the word of the Lord,
But they will not find it.
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And from the north even to the east;
They will go to and fro to (X)seek the word of the Lord,
But they will not find it.
Footnotes:
a.
Amos 8:1: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord, ', and so throughout the ch']
b.
Amos 8:2: ['Lit ', pass him by]
c.
Amos 8:3: ['Or ', They will howl the palace songs]
d.
Amos 8:3: ['Lit ', he has thrown]
e.
Amos 8:3: ['Or ', hush, '!']
f.
Amos 8:4: ['Or ', snap at]
g.
Amos 8:5: ['Lit ', pass by]
h.
Amos 8:5: ['Lit ', ephah]
i.
Amos 8:5: ['Lit ', balances of deception]
j.
Amos 8:6: ['Lit ', silver]
k.
Amos 8:9: ['Lit ', a day of light]
l.
Amos 8:10: ['Or ', a dirge]
m.
Amos 8:14: ['Or ', Ashimah]
Cross references:
F.
Amos 8:3:
Amos 6:8-10