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Amos 2:11-12
New Living Translation
Amos 2:11-12
New Living Translation
11 I chose some of your sons to be prophets
and others to be Nazirites.
Can you deny this, my people of Israel?”
asks the Lord.
12 “But you caused the Nazirites to sin by making them drink wine,
and you commanded the prophets, ‘Shut up!’
Amos 2:11-12
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Amos 2:11-12
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Amos 6:10
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Amos 6:10
New Living Translation
10 And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead[a] goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No, by . . . ,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Don’t even mention the name of the Lord.”)
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- 6:10 Or to burn the dead. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Amos 6:10
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Amos 6:10
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10 And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[a](A) asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush!(B) We must not mention the name of the Lord.”
Footnotes
- Amos 6:10 Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead
Amos 8:11-12
New Living Translation
Amos 8:11-12
New Living Translation
11 “The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread or water
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from border to border[a]
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.
Footnotes
- 8:12 Hebrew from north to east.
Amos 8:11-12
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Amos 8:11-12
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11 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.(D)
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