Amos 7:3-5
New English Translation
3 The Lord decided not to do this.[a] “It will not happen,” the Lord said.
4 The Sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw[b] the Sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire.[c] It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields. 5 I said,
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- 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 7:5 tn Heb “stand.”
- Amos 7:5 tn Heb “small.”
Amos 7:3-5
New International Version
3 So the Lord relented.(A)
“This will not happen,” the Lord said.(B)
4 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;(C) it dried up the great deep and devoured(D) the land. 5 Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!(E)”
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