Amos 8:2 meaning and explanation
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
Amos 8:2, Berean Standard Bible
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The Lord GOD shows Amos a basket of summer fruit and asks what he sees. The Hebrew word for summer fruit, qayits, sounds like qets, meaning end, so the image carries a pun: the harvest is gathered, and Israel's time is up.
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