Amos 8:1-8
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.]
