Amo 8:2 | TNotes | STEP | 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 8:2

8:2 ^a 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.