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Amos 8:1-7

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The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning

1 1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, 2"Amos, what do you see?" And I said, 3"A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, 4"The end[a] has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.
3 5The songs of the temple[b]6shall become wailings[c] in that day," declares the Lord GOD. 7"So many dead bodies!" "They are thrown everywhere!" 8"Silence!"
4 Hear this, 9you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, "When will 10the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And 11the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make 12the ephah small and the shekel[d] great and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for 13silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?"
7 The LORD has sworn by 14the pride of Jacob: "Surely 15I will never forget any of their deeds.
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Amos 8:1-7 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 15

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
  • [b]. Or palace
  • [c]. Or The singing women of the palace shall wail
  • [d]. An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
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