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Amos 8:2

“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.”

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ASV

And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

KJV

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.

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21 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
מָֽה־mah-what?H4100 →
אַתָּ֤ה'a.Tah[are] youH859 →
רֹאֶה֙ro.'EhseeingH7200 →
עָמ֔וֹסa.MosO AmosH5986 →
וָאֹמַ֖רva.'o.Marand I saidH559 →
כְּל֣וּבke.Luva basket ofH3619 →
קָ֑יִץKa.yitzsummer fruitH7019 →
וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
יְהוָ֜הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֵלַ֗י'e.Laito meH413 →
בָּ֤אba'it has comeH935 →
הַקֵּץ֙ha.Ketzthe endH7093 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
עַמִּ֣י'a.Mipeople myH5971 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
אוֹסִ֥יף'o.SifI will repeatH3254 →
ע֖וֹדodagainH5750 →
עֲב֥וֹרa.Vorto pass byH5674 →
לֽוֹ׃lo<to> it

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Jeremiah 1:11And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.Amos 7:8“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:Jeremiah 1:12“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”Joel 2:1Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—Ezekiel 7:2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.Lamentations 4:18They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!Jeremiah 24:3“Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”Genesis 6:13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?Jeremiah 1:11–14And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.Micah 7:1Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.Zephaniah 1:14The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.Acts 11:5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.Ezekiel 3:7But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.Ezekiel 7:6The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!Isaiah 28:4The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.Ezekiel 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!Deuteronomy 26:1–4When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,

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The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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