Amos 8
1 By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end.
4 Oppression is reproved.
11 A famine of the word of God threatened.
Amos <05986> [Amos.]
basket <03619> [A basket.]
end <07093> [the end.]
There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."
<03254> [I will not.]
singing <07892> [the songs.]
wail <03213> [shall be howlings. Heb. shall howl. many.]
littered <07993> [they shall.]
Be quiet <02013> [with silence. Heb. be silent.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
trample <07602> [swallow.]
new moon <02320> [When.]
new moon <02320> [new moon. or, month. be gone.]
Sabbath ................... price <07676 08255> [and the.]
open up <06605> [set forth. Heb. open. making.]
cheat ..... rigged scales <03976 04820 05791> [falsifying the balances by deceit. Heb. perverting the balances of deceit.]
oath <07650> [sworn.]
never <05331> [I will.]
earth <0776> [the land.]
It is supposed that an earthquake is here intended; the rising and falling of the ground, with a wave-like motion, and its leaving its proper place and bounds, in consequence of an earthquake, being justly and beautifully compared to the swelling, overflowing, and subsiding of the Nile.
mourn <056> [every one.]
rise <05927> [rise.]
sun <08121> [that I.]
This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover.
dark <02821> [and I.]
turn <02015> [I will turn.]
funeral clothes <08242> [sackcloth.]
funerals ............................ mourn <060> [as the.]
bitter <04751> [a bitter.]
divine revelation <08085> [but.]
wander about <07751> [shall run.]
oaths <07650> [swear.]
sinful <0819> [sin.]
beloved <01870> [manner. Heb. way.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba. See on ver.]
fall down <05307> [shall fall.]
