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Amos 7:2-4
New English Translation
Amos 7:2-4
New English Translation
2 When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said,
3 The Lord decided not to do this.[d] “It will not happen,” the Lord said.
4 The Sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw[e] the Sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire.[f] It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.
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- Amos 7:2 tn “Israel” is supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Amos 7:2 tn Heb “stand” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
- Amos 7:2 tn Heb “small.”
- Amos 7:3 tn Or “changed his mind about this.”
- Amos 7:4 tn Heb “behold” or “look.”
- Amos 7:4 tc The Hebrew appears to read, “summoning to contend with fire,” or “summoning fire to contend,” but both are problematic syntactically (H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos [Hermeneia], 292; S. M. Paul, Amos [Hermeneia], 230-31). Many emend the text to לרבב אשׁ, “(calling) for a shower of fire,” though this interpretation is also problematic (see F. I. Andersen and D. N. Freedman, Amos [AB], 746-47).
Amos 7:2-4
New International Version
Amos 7:2-4
New International Version
2 When they had stripped the land clean,(A) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(B) He is so small!(C)”
3 So the Lord relented.(D)
“This will not happen,” the Lord said.(E)
4 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;(F) it dried up the great deep and devoured(G) the land.
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