Amos 7:2-4

New English Translation

²When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said,

“Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel!^[a]
How can Jacob survive?^[b]
He is too weak!”^[c]

³The Lord decided not to do this.^[d] “It will not happen,” the Lord said.

⁴The 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.

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).

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