Amos 8:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Amos, what seest thou? the like question you have Amos 7:8, which see. A basket of summer fruit: see Amos 8:1. Then said the Lord unto me: the meaning of this hieroglyphic not being very plain in itself, the Lord doth here explain it in the following words. The end of God's patience towards Israel, of their peace, growth, and glory; the end of their ripening, they are now as fruit fully ripe, in the end of the year, fit to be gathered. My people Israel; so they were once, so they boast themselves, so the nations about them account Israel to be the people of God. I will not again pass by them any more: see Amos 7:8. God had with admirable patience spared and tried, but now he will with just severity punish, neither pardon nor spare.

Amos 8:2

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.