8:2 He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end 1 has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins. 2
8:11 Be certain of this, 3 the time is 4 coming,” says the sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land –
not a shortage of food or water
but an end to divine revelation! 5
1 tn There is a wordplay here. The Hebrew word קֵץ (qets, “end”) sounds like קָיִץ (qayits, “summer fruit”). The summer fruit arrived toward the end of Israel’s agricultural year; Israel’s national existence was similarly at an end.
2 tn Heb “I will no longer pass over him.”
3 tn Heb “behold” or “look.”
4 tn Heb “the days are.”
5 tn Heb “not a hunger for food or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the