KJV King James Version
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
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Amos 8:1
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
WEB World English Bible
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
ASV American Standard Version
Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
Surrounding context — Amos 8
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
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.
3 And 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.
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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Amos 7:1Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king’s mowings.Amos 7:4Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.Amos 7:7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
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