Amos 4:11

New English Translation

¹¹“I overthrew some of you the way God^[a] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.^[b]

You were like a burning stick^[c] snatched from the flames.
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking

Amos 4:11 tn Several English versions substitute the first person pronoun (“I”) here for stylistic reasons (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
Amos 4:11 tn Heb “like God’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.” The divine name may be used in an idiomatic superlative sense here, in which case one might translate, “like the great [or “disastrous”] overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.”sn The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is described in Gen 19:1-29.
Amos 4:11 tn Heb “like that which is burning.”

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