Fourth Vision: A Basket of Summer Fruit
1The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.
I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”8:2 In Hb the word for summer fruit sounds like the word for end.8:2 Jr 24:3
The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel;8:2 Ezk 7:2–3,6 I will no longer spare them.8:2 Am 7:8
and do away with the poor of the land,8:4 Is 10:2
5asking, “When will the New Moon be over
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?8:5 Ex 31:13–17
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price8:5 Lit reduce the ephah and make the shekel great
and cheat with dishonest scales.8:5 Dt 25:13–15; Pr 20:23; Hs 12:7
6We can buy the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals8:6 Am 2:6
and even sell the chaff!”
and all who dwell in it mourn?8:8 Hs 4:3
All of it will rise like the Nile;8:8 Jr 46:7–8
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.8:8 Am 9:5
9And in that day —
this is the declaration of the Lord God —
I will darken the land in the daytime.8:9 Is 59:9–10; Am 4:13; 5:8; Mt 27:45
I will cause everyone8:10 Lit every waist to wear sackcloth8:10 Ezk 7:18
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son8:10 Zch 12:10–14
and its outcome like a bitter day.
11Look, the days are coming —
this is the declaration of the Lord God —
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.8:9–11 Mc 3:6–7
12People will stagger from sea to sea
and roam from north to east
but they will not find it.
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”8:14 1Kg 12:28–29
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