Amos 8:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THUS THE Lord God showed to me, and behold, a basket of [ripe and therefore soon to perish] summer fruit. American Standard Version (1901) Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit. Common English Bible This is what the LORD God showed me: a basket of summer fruit. Catholic Public Domain Version These things the Lord has revealed to me. And behold, a hook to draw down fruit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit. |
The Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. This was after King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem King Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the artisans, and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.
This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings).
Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”
This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.