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The Vision of Ripe Fruit

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

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me, “An end[a] has come for my people Israel, because I will not overlook their sins anymore.

“On that day the palace songs will become funeral songs,” says the Lord God. “There will be dead bodies thrown everywhere! Silence!”

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 end The Hebrew word for “end” sounds like the Hebrew word for “summer fruit.”

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