Add parallel Print Page Options

Eternal One: What do you see, Amos?

Amos: I see a basket of ripe fruit.

Eternal One: The time is ripe for the end of My people, Israel.
        I will not overlook their wrongdoing any longer.

Read full chapter

“What do you see, Amos?” he asked.

I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”

Then the Lord said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.

Read full chapter

And he said, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, (B)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

(C)“The end[a] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike