Amos 8:1

Summer fruit. Heb. qayis, early maturing fruit, used especially of “figs.” The purpose of this vision was to show that the people were ripe for judgment, that God’s forbearance was at an end. The divine long-suffering had resulted only in the continuance of Israel’s sin. This figure fittingly represents Israel’s final doom. Instead of “a basket of summer fruit,” the LXX reads “a fowler’s basket.” This conveys the thought that Israel would be brought into captivity as a bird is caught in a birdcatcher’s cage or basket.