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He said, Amos, what see you? I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Yahweh to me, The end is come on my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
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A Pun on Judgment
Commentators unanimously highlight a powerful wordplay in the original Hebrew. The word for “summer fruit” (qayits) sounds nearly identical to the word for “the end” (qêts). God uses this visual pun to make His message unmistakable: just as the summer fruit represents the end of the harvest season, Israel has reached the end of its time of grace.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thus has the Lord God shown me - After the sentence against Amaziah was pronounced, Amos resumed just where he had left off before Amaziah i…
19th Century
Anglican
The visions are resumed as though the priest at Bethel had trembled at the presence of Amos, and had ceased to persecute him. There is a remarkable…
16th Century
Protestant
By these words, or by this vision, the Prophet confirms what we have already observed: that paternal chastisements would no longer be exercised tow…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said, Amos, what do you see ? &c.] To quicken his attention, who might disregard it as a common thing; and in…
Amos saw a basket of summer fruit gathered, and ready to be eaten, which signified that the people were ripe for destruction and that the year of G…
