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Amos 8:1
Amos 8:1 is verse 1 of Amos chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
Or ripe fruit; also in verse 2
King James Version
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
World English Bible
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
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Amos 8:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
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.”
3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Amos 7:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
Amos 7:4This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
Amos 7:7This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.