Amos 8:1-3

New International Reader's Version

Amos Has a Vision of a Basket of Ripe Fruit

8 The Lord and King gave me a vision. He showed me a basket of ripe fruit. ² “What do you see, Amos?” he asked.

“A basket of ripe fruit,” I replied.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel. I will no longer spare them.

³ “The time is coming when the songs in the temple will turn to weeping,” announces the Lord and King. “Many, many bodies will be thrown everywhere! So be quiet!”