Amos 8:1-3

New International Version - UK

A basket of ripe fruit

8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. ² ‘What do you see, Amos?’ he asked.

‘A basket of ripe fruit,’ I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, ‘The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

³ ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.^[a] Many, many bodies – flung everywhere! Silence!’