81 Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold , there was a basket of summer fruit . 2 He said , "What do you see , Amos ?" And I said , "A basket of summer fruit ." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel . I will spare them no longer e . 3 "The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day ," declares the Lord GOD . "Many will be the corpses ; in every place they will cast them forth in silence ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Amos 8:1-3
Commentary on Amos 8:1-3
(Read Amos 8:1-3)
Amos saw a basket of summer fruit gathered, and ready to be eaten; which signified, that the people were ripe for destruction, that the year of God's patience was drawing towards a conclusion. Such summer fruits will not keep till winter, but must be used at once. Yet these judgments shall not draw from them any acknowledgement, either of God's righteousness or their own unrighteousness. Sinners put off repentance from day to day, because they think the Lord thus delays his judgments.