Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
"The dead bodies ... many, etc ... silence ..." This verse is rendered differently in several versions; and Fosbroke complained that, "The phrasing is abrupt, disjointed, and with no discernible grammatical construction," but, in spite of this, went on to state that even as the text stands, "it presents effectively the horrors of the aftermath of war, or possibly of pestilence."[13]  We appreciate what McKeating said; "Amos seems to specialize in these fragmentary pictures, whose very lack of clarity makes them the more menacing."[14]  Hammershalmb rendered the Hebrew text literally as, "The dead bodies are many! in every place one throws out, silence!"[15]