Amos 8:2

And Hashem said: Amos, what seest thou? And I said: A basket of kayitz (summer fruit). Then said Hashem unto me: 1 The ketz (end) is come upon My people Yisroel; 1 I will not again pass by them [and spare them] anymore. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Thus hath Adonoi Hashem showed unto me: and hinei a basket of kayitz (summer fruit).

3And the shirot of the heikhal shall turn to wailings in that Yom, saith Adonoi Hashem; 1 there shall be many dead bodies in every place; 1 they shall cast them forth. 1 Silence! 1

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Cross References

Genesis 6:13And Elohim said unto Noach, The ketz (end) of kol basar is come before Me; for ha'aretz is filled with chamas because of them; and, hineni, I will destroy them with ha'aretz.

2 Samuel 16:1And when Dovid was a little past the top of the hill, hinei, Tziva the na'ar of Mephivoshet met him, with a couple of chamorim saddled, and upon them 200 lechem, and 100 bunches of tzimmukim, and 100 kayitz, and a skin of yayin.

Jeremiah 1:11Moreover the Devar Hashem came unto me, saying, Yirmeyah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a makel shaqed (a branch of an almond tree).

Jeremiah 1:13And the Devar Hashem came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a siyr nafuach (A BOILING CAULDRON) tipping over from the north.

Jeremiah 24:1Hashem showed me, and, hinei, two baskets of figs were set in front of the Heikhal Hashem; after that Nevukhadretzar Melech Bavel had carried away into the Golus Melech Yehudah Yechanyah ben Y'hoyakim, and the sarim (princes) of Yehudah, with the craftsmen and artisans, from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Babylon.

Lamentations 4:18They stalk our steps, 1 that we cannot go in our streets; 1 kitzeinu (our end) is near, our yamim are numbered; 1 for kitzeinu is come. 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:2-4

The Vision of Summer Fruit. ( b. c. 785.) 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. The great reason why sinners defer their… Read the whole commentary →

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