A Basket of Ripe Fruit

8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:^(A) a basket of ripe fruit. ² “What do you see,^(B) Amos?^(C)” he asked.

“A basket^(D) 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.^(E)

³ “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.^[a](F) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!^(G)”