Amos Chapter 8 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Amos 8:1

Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
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BBE Amos 8:1

This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
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DARBY Amos 8:1

Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
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KJV Amos 8:1

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
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WBT Amos 8:1


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WEB Amos 8:1

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
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YLT Amos 8:1

Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-14. - § 5. In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed of the chieftains (vers. 4-10), and warns them that those who despise the Word of God shall some day suffer from a famine of the Word (vers. 11-14). Verse 1. - A basket of summer fruit; Septuagint, ἄγγος ἰξευτοῦ, "a fowler's vessel;" Vulgate, uncinus pomorum, which Jerome explains," Sicut uncino rami arborum detrahuntur ad poma carpenda, ita ego proximum captivitatis tempus attraxi." The word chelub is taken to mean "a basket of wickerwork;" it is used for "a cage" in Jeremiah 5:27, but is found nowhere else. The gathering of fruit was the last harvest of the year, and thus fitly typified the final punishment of Israel. This is set forth by the play on the word in the next verse.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1, 2) The visions are resumed as though the priest at Bethel had trembled at the presence of Amos, and had ceased to persecute him. There is a remarkable play of words, qaits being the Hebrew for "summer fruit," and qets for "end." It is harvest time, the end of the agricultural year. Israel is ripe for his final doom, that shall sweep down like a scythe. For "pass by" see on Amos 7:8.