2 “And as for you, O son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said to the soil of Israel, ‘An end, the end, has come upon the four extremities* of the land.*+

23 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “I shall certainly cause this proverbial saying to cease, and they will no more say it as a proverb in Israel.”’+ But speak to them, ‘The days have drawn near,+ and the matter of every vision.’

2 Then he said: “What are you seeing,+ Aʹmos?” So I said: “A basket of summer fruit.”*+ And Jehovah went on to say to me: “The end* has come to my people Israel.+ I shall no more do any further excusing of them.+