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!”

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"
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