This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
Parallel translations
- WEB Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
- KJV Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
- NKJV Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
- NASB This is what the Lord God showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
- NLT Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
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Quick answer
In the fourth vision, God shows Amos a basket of summer fruit. The ripe fruit signals that Israel is ripe for judgment.
Overview
The basket of ripe summer fruit serves as a sign that Israel's time has fully come, much as fruit gathered at season's end. In Hebrew there is a wordplay between 'summer fruit' and 'end,' which the next verse makes explicit. The vision presses home that the season of patience is over, a warning to be ready before God's appointed end arrives.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Amos 7:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
- Amos 7:7This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
- Amos 7:4This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
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