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Fourth Vision: A Basket of Summer Fruit

The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit. He asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’(A)

I replied, ‘A basket of summer fruit.’[a](B)

The Lord said to me, ‘The end has come for my people Israel;(C) I will no longer spare them.(D) In that day the temple[b] songs(E) will become wailing’(F) – this is the Lord God’s declaration. ‘Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!(G) Silence! ’(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 In Hb the word for summer fruit sounds like the word for end.
  2. 8:3 Or palace