Amós 8:1-3

A Visão de um Cesto de Frutas Maduras

1 O SENHOR, o Soberano, me mostrou um cesto de frutas maduras.

2 “O que você está vendo, Amós?”, ele perguntou.Um cesto de frutas maduras, respondi.Então o SENHOR me disse: “Chegou o fim de Israel, o meu povo; não mais o pouparei”.

3 “Naquele dia”, declara o SENHOR, o Soberano, “as canções no templo se tornarão lamentos.^[a] Muitos, muitos serão os corpos, atirados por todos os lados! Silêncio!”

Amós 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Ou "“os cantores do templo se lamentarão."