Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
"A basket of summer fruit ..." Despite this translation being widely received, there is, nevertheless, some question about it.  Most commentators and translators are greatly impressed with what they see as a kind of pun in the similarities between the Hebrew word for "basket" and their word for "end."[7]  But the Hebrew word from which this is translated actually means "a receiver"[8] and might just as well be translated "hook" for plucking, or receiving the fruit from the tree.  The Catholic Bible gives it that meaning: "And behold a hook to draw down fruit."[9]  In either case, the meaning is essentially the same, namely that the ripeness of the fruit signals the end of its cycle.  Motyer commented that, "The harvest metaphor is well suited to the passage.  The crop comes to harvest as the climax of its own inner development."[10]