Amos 8:2

“And he said, Amos, what seest thou? etc.] To quicken his attention, who might disregard it as a common thing; and in order to lead him into the design of it, and show him what it was an emblem of: and I said, a basket of summer fruit; some render it “a hook”f213, such as they pull down branches with to gather the fruit; and the word so signifies in the Arabic languagef214; but the other is the more received sense of the word: then said the Lord unto me; by way of explanation of the vision: the end is come upon my people Israel: the end of the kingdom of Israel; of their commonwealth and church state; of all their outward happiness and glory; their “summer [was] ended”, and they “not saved”,…”

“end-- (Eze 7:2, Eze 7:6).”

“Thus hath the Lord God showed me - The sentence of Amaziah pronounced, Amos resumes just where he left off, before Amaziah broke in upon him. His vehement interruption is like a stone cast into the deep waters. They close over it, and it leaves no trace. Amos had authenticated the third vision; “Thus hath the Lord God shewed me.” He resumes in the self-same calm words. The last vision declared that the end was certain; this, that it was at hand. A basket of summer fruit - The fruit was the latest harvest in Palestine. When it was gathered, the circle of husbandry was come to its close. The sight gives an idea of completeness. The symbol, and the word expressing it, coincide. The…”

“The end - Of God's patience towards Israel, the end of their ripening, they are now fully ripe, fit to be gathered. Pass by them - God had with admirable patience spared, but now he will no more pardon or spare. Amos 8:3”

“8:2 ripe for punishment (literally the end has come): Amos makes a play on words between ripe fruit (Hebrew qayits) and the end has come (Hebrew ba’ haqqets). The end had come for God’s people, Israel, because they were ripe fruit, ready to be harvested in judgment.”

“Amos: Amo 7:8; Jer 1:11-14; Eze 8:6, Eze 8:12, Eze 8:17; Zac 1:18-21, Zac 5:2, Zac 5:5, Zac 5:6 A basket: Deu 26:1-4; Sa2 16:1, Sa2 16:2; Isa 28:4; Jer 24:1-3, Jer 40:10; Mic 7:1 the end: There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words kayitz "summer fruit," and ketz "an end." Jer 1:12, Jer 5:31; Lam 4:18; Eze 7:2, Eze 3:7, Eze 3:10, Eze 12:23, Eze 29:8 I will not: Amo 7:8 Amos 8:3”