# Amos 8.1-3

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**Book:** [Amos](/codex/amos/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> **1. Thus the Lord Jehovah showed 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 Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3. And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.**
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> 4. Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5. saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; (Amos 8:1-5, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> **1. Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2. He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. 3. The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.**
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> 4. Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5. Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; (Amos 8:1-5, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> **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. <sup>shall be howlings: Heb. shall howl</sup> <sup>with: Heb. be silent</sup>**
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> 4. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5. Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? <sup>new: or, month</sup> <sup>set: Heb. open</sup> <sup>falsifying: Heb. perverting the balances of deceit</sup> (Amos 8:1-5, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> **1. Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit. 2. And He saith, 'What art thou seeing, Amos?' and I say, 'A basket of summer-fruit.' And Jehovah saith unto me: 'The end hath come unto My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it. 3. And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many [are] the carcases, into any place throw, hush!**
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> 4. Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, 5. Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. (Amos 8:1-5, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
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- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

- [H0136 - adonai](/codex/h0136-adonai/), *adonai*, Strong's H0136
- [H3068 - YHWH](/codex/h3068-yhwh/), *YHWH*, Strong's H3068

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## Quoted in

**Passages:**

- [Amos 7.6](/codex/amos-7-6/)

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## Notes

_Your annotations._

## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.