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Contemporary English Version

Amos 8:1

The Lord God showed me a basket of ripe fruit

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Summer;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture-Horticulture;   Fruit, Natural;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Basket;   Cage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Basket;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amos;   Basket;   Vision;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amos (1);   Basket;   Beard;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Basket;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baskets;   Cage;   Symbol;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
King James Version (1611)
Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and beholde, a basket of Summer fruit.
King James Version
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
English Standard Version
This is what 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.
New Century Version
This is what the Lord God showed me: 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, & behold, a basket of summer fruite.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
Complete Jewish Bible
Here is what Adonai Elohim showed me: there in front of me was a basket of summer fruit.
Darby Translation
Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord God showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
George Lamsa Translation
THUS has the LORD God showed me: and behold, a sign of the end.
Good News Translation
I had another vision from the Sovereign Lord . In it I saw a basket of fruit.
Lexham English Bible
My Lord Yahweh showed me this, and there was a basket of summer fruit.
Literal Translation
The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And, behold, a basket of summer fruit!
American Standard Version
Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus hath the Lorde God shewed vnto me: and beholde, a basket of sommer fruite.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And behold a fowler’s basket.
English Revised Version
Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
World English Bible
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God schewide to me these thingis; and lo! an hook of applis.
Update Bible Version
Thus the Lord Yahweh 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.
New English Translation
The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
New King James Version
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
New Living Translation
Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
New Life Bible
This is what the Lord God showed me: There was a basket of summer fruit.
New Revised Standard
This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, - and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the 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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE God shewed me me this vision: and beholde, there was a maude with sommer frute.
THE MESSAGE
My Master God showed me this vision: A bowl of fresh fruit.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord God showed me a basket of ripe fruit 2 and asked, "Amos, what do you see?" "A basket of ripe fruit," I replied. Then he said, "This is the end for my people Israel. I won't forgive them again. 3 Instead of singing in the temple, they will cry and weep. Dead bodies will be everywhere. So keep silent! I, the Lord , have spoken!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Amos 7:1, Amos 7:4, Amos 7:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:1 - summer 2 Kings 8:10 - the Lord Jeremiah 24:1 - Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 8:9
Deep water was still everywhere, and the dove could not find a place to land. So it flew back to the boat. Noah held out his hand and helped it back in.
Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar where he could offer sacrifices to the Lord . Then he offered on the altar one of each kind of animal and bird that could be used for a sacrifice.
Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat; winter and summer, day and night.
Genesis 19:29
When God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot lived, he remembered his promise to Abraham and saved Lot from the terrible destruction.
Genesis 30:22
Finally, God remembered Rachel—he answered her prayer by giving her a son. "God has taken away my disgrace," she said.
Exodus 2:24
and God heard their loud cries. He did not forget the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Exodus 14:21
Moses stretched his arm over the sea, and the Lord sent a strong east wind that blew all night until there was dry land where the water had been. The sea opened up,
Numbers 22:32
The angel said, "You had no right to treat your donkey like that! I was the one who blocked your way, because I don't think you should go to Moab.
1 Samuel 1:19
Elkanah and his family got up early the next morning and worshiped the Lord . Then they went back home to Ramah. Later the Lord blessed Elkanah and Hannah
Nehemiah 13:14
I pray that my God will remember these good things that I have done for his temple and for those who worship there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me,.... Another vision, which is the fourth, and after the following manner:

and, behold, a basket of summer fruit; not of the first ripe fruit, but of such as were gathered at the close of the summer, when autumn began. So the Targum,

"the last of the summer fruit;''

such as were fully ripe, and would not keep till winter; or, if kept, would rot; but must be eaten directly, as some sort of apples, grapes, c. denoting the people of Israel being ripe for destruction, and would be quickly devoured by their enemies and that, as they had had a summer of prosperity, they would now have a sharp winter of adversity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thus hath the Lord God showed me - The sentence of Amaziah pronounced, Amos resumes just where he left off, before Amaziah broke in upon him. His vehement interruption is like a stone cast into the deep waters. They close over it, and it leaves no trace. Amos had authenticated the third vision; “Thus hath the Lord God shewed me.” He resumes in the self-same calm words. The last vision declared that the end was certain; this, that it was at hand.

A basket of summer fruit - The fruit was the latest harvest in Palestine. When it was gathered, the circle of husbandry was come to its close. The sight gives an idea of completeness. The symbol, and the word expressing it, coincide. The fruit-gathering קיץ qayits, like our “crop,” was called from “cutting.” So was the word, “end,” “cutting off,” in (קץ qêts). At harvest-time there is no more to be done for that crop. Good or bad, it has reached its end, and is cut down. So the harvest of Israel was come. The whole course of God’s providences, mercies, chastenings, visitations, instructions, warnings, in spirations, were completed. “What could have been done more to My vineyard, God asks Isaiah 5:4, that I have not done in it?” “To the works of sin, as of holiness, there is a beginning, progress, completion;” a “sowing of wild oats,” as people speak, and a ripening in wickedness; a maturity of people’s plans, as they deem; a maturity for destruction, in the sight of God. There was no more to be done. heavenly influences can but injure the ripened sinner, as dew, rain, sun, but injure the ripened fruit Israel was ripe, but for destruction.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VIII

This chapter begins with a fourth vision denoting the certainty

and nearness of the destruction of Israel, 1-3.

The prophet then proceeds to reprove their oppression and

injustice, 4-7.

Strong and beautiful figures, by which is represented the

complete dissolution of the Israelitish polity, 8-10.

The people threatened with a most awful judgment; a FAMINE of

the word of God, 11-14.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII

Verse Amos 8:1. A basket of summer fruit. — As summer fruit was not proper for preserving, but must be eaten as soon as gathered, so the Lord intimates by this symbol that the kingdom of Israel was now ripe for destruction, and that punishment must descend upon it without delay. Some think the prophet means the fruits at the end of autumn. And as after the autumn no fruit could be expected, so Israel's summer is gone by, her autumn is ended, and she shall yield no more fruit. Or, the autumn of her iniquity is come; the measure is filled up, and now she shall gather the fruit of her sin in the abundance of her punishment.


 
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