Amos 8:1

A Basket of Ripe Fruit

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

Amos 8:1 in Other Translations

KJV
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
ESV
1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
NLT
1 Then the Sovereign LORD showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
MSG
1 My Master God showed me this vision: A bowl of fresh fruit.
CSB
1 The Lord God showed me this: A basket of summer fruit.

Amos 8:1 In-Context

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. Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
5 saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,

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