Amos 8:1-3

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!"

Cross References 8

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
  • [b]. Or palace
  • [c]. Or The singing women of the palace shall wail
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