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Amos 8:2 KJV
Amos · chapter 8 · verse 2
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.Amos 8:2 · King James Version
Amos 8:2 in context
1Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2And 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.
3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- basketkᵉlûwba bird-trapH3619 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- seestrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- fruitqayitsharvest , whether the product or the seasonH7019 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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The great reason why sinners defer their repentance de die in diem - from day to day, is because they think God thus defers his judgments, and there is no song wherewith they so effectually sing themselves asleep as that, My Lord delays his coming;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-3