Amos 8:2
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Amos
- Amos 7:8; Jeremiah 1:11–14; Ezekiel 8:6, 12, 17; Zechariah 1:18–21; Zechariah 5:2, 5, 6
- A basket
- Deuteronomy 26:1–4; 2 Samuel 16:1, 2; Isaiah 28:4; Jeremiah 24:1–3; Jeremiah 40:10; Micah 7:1
- the end
- There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."
- Jeremiah 1:12; Jeremiah 5:31; Lamentations 4:18; Ezekiel 7:2; Ezekiel 3:7, 10; Ezekiel 12:23; Ezekiel 29:8
- I will not
- Amos 7:8