◄ Amos 8:1 {7:17} ►
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Good News Translation
I had another vision from the Sovereign LORD. In it I saw a basket of fruit.

New Revised Standard Version
This is what the Lord GOD showed me—a basket of summer fruit.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD God showed me a basket of ripe fruit

New American Bible
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: a basket of end-of-summer fruit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play the harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured by a line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play the harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured by a line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.

Amos 7:1,4,7 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert. . . .

Context
The Basket of Ripe Fruit
1Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play the harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured by a line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.2These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 24:1
The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Amos 7:17
And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the house of the idol.

Amos 8:2
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Amos 7:17
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