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Summer fruit and famine of hearing

Amos 8:1–14One basket of ripe fruit · Dishonest measures · Dark noon · A fruitless search for words

Summer fruit and famine of hearing in one plate: A basket of summer fruit; Dishonest measures and inferior grain; The sun darkens at noon; A famine of hearing people wander and seek.
  1. 1 A basket of summer fruit Amos 8:1–3
    Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. v1 · WEB
    In the commentary A Basket of Summer Fruit
  2. 2 Dishonest measures and inferior grain Amos 8:4–8
    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… v5 · WEB
    In the commentary Making the Ephah Small
  3. 3 The sun darkens at noon Amos 8:9–10
    It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. v9 · WEB
    In the commentary A Famine of Hearing
  4. 4 A famine of hearing people wander and seek Amos 8:11–14
    Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing… v11 · WEB
    In the commentary A Famine of Hearing

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