6 “‘You yourself have deserted me,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah. ‘Backwards is the way you keep walking.+ And I shall stretch out my hand against you and bring you to ruin.+ I have got tired of feeling regret.+

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.*+

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.+