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The Fourth Vision: The Basket of Summer Fruit

This is what the Lord God showed me: I saw a basket of ripe summer fruit. Then he asked, “What do you see, Amos?”

I said, “A basket of ripe summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me, “The end is coming upon my people Israel.[a] I will no longer overlook their sin. The singing women of the palace[b] will wail on that day, declares the Lord God. Many corpses—all over! Silence!”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for summer fruit and end sound alike. Just as the summer fruit is ripe, Israel is ripe for judgment.
  2. Amos 8:3 Or the songs of the temple