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Pentecost Season · Proper 11 · Year C

Amos 8:1-12

A Basket of Summer Fruit

July 23, 2028

Basket of Fruit (Canestra di frutta), Caravaggio
Basket of Fruit (Canestra di frutta), Caravaggio, c. 1599Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
One of the first independent still lifes in Italian art, and the fruit is not perfect: the leaves are dry, there is a wormhole, and one apple is going.Hear this, you that trample on the needy, practising deceit with false balances, selling the sweepings of the wheat. Amos is about what gets sold, and Caravaggio painted produce honestly.CaravaggioThe painter who put street models and raking light into altarpieces, killed a man in a brawl, and changed European painting in under twenty years.Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, MilanA library and gallery founded by a cardinal in 1618, among the first institutions anywhere open to any reader.Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelLuke 10:38-42Lk 10:38-42
EpistleCol. 1:15-28Col 1:15-28
Old TestamentAmos 8:1-12Am 8:1-12Alt. OTGen. 18:1-10aGn 18:1-10a
PsalterPs. 52Ps 52Alt. PsalmPs. 15Ps 15

Overview & Insights

"The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by." (Amos 8:2)

God shows Amos a basket of ripe summer fruit, a wordplay in Hebrew signaling that Israel's time has ripened for judgment. Amos condemns merchants who cheat the poor and shrink the ephah while waiting impatiently for the Sabbath to end, and warns of a coming famine of hearing God's word.

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Commentary

Commentary on Amos 8:1-12Commentary on Am 8:1-12 Working Preacher

Explains the Hebrew wordplay between 'summer fruit' (qayits) and 'end' (qets).

Amos 8:1-12 CommentaryAm 8:1-12 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching

A preaching-focused reading of God's anger at merchants who cheat the poor.

Amos 8 Bible CommentaryAm 8 Bible Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Verse-by-verse evangelical treatment of the vision and the indictment of dishonest trade.

Amos 8:1 CommentariesAm 8:1 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregates classic commentaries verse by verse on the passage.

Amos 8 CommentaryAm 8 Commentary Precept Austin

A detailed inductive-study commentary with cross-references on the whole chapter.

Background & Word Study

Amos 8:1 InterlinearAm 8:1 Interlinear BibleHub

Shows the Hebrew wordplay between qayits (summer fruit) and qets (end) word by word.

Amos (video)Am (video) BibleProject

Animated overview of Amos's structure and its theme of covenant justice.

Amos 8:1-12 (Hebrew text)Am 8:1-12 (Hebrew text) Sefaria

The Masoretic Hebrew text with facing translation for direct word study.

The Church Fathers

Catena on Amos 8Catena on Am 8 Catena

Patristic-era comments on the vision of ripened judgment and the famine of hearing God's word.

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