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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Notas al pie

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

A vision of summer fruit

This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit. He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me,

    “The end has come upon my people Israel;
        I will never again forgive them.
    On that day, the people will wail the temple songs,”
        says the Lord God;
    “there will be many corpses,
    thrown about everywhere.[a]
        Silence.”

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Notas al pie

  1. Amos 8:3 Heb uncertain