Amos 8:1-3

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

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

2 “What do you see, Amos?” he asked. “A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered. Then the LORD said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

3 “In that day,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.^[a] Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

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Amos 8:1-3 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 8

In this chapter a fourth vision is delivered, the vision of a "basket of summer fruit"; signifying the destruction of the ten tribes, for which they were ripe, and which would quickly come upon them, Am 8:1-3; the rich are reproved for their oppression of the poor, their covetousness and earthly mindedness, Am 8:4-6; for which they are threatened with entire ruin, sudden calamities, and very mournful times, instead of light, joy, and gladness, Am 8:7-10; and particularly with a famine of hearing the word of God, Am 8:11,12; the consequence of which would be, a fainting of the young men and virgins for thirst, and the utter and irrecoverable ruin of all idolaters, Am 8:13,14.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 7

1. S Amos 7:1
2. Jeremiah 1:13; Jeremiah 24:3
3. Amos 7:8
4. S Genesis 40:16
5. S Lamentations 4:18; Ezekiel 7:2-9
6. S Amos 5:16
7. Amos 5:23; Amos 6:10

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "“the temple singers will wail"