daasim.blogg.se - Amos & boris by william steig

Amos 6:13 Karnaim means horns horn here symbolizes strength.

Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew Masoretic Text plow there.

Amos 6:10 Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead.

Amos 5:26 Or lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods Septuagint lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols.

Amos 5:5 Hebrew aven, a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel) see Hosea 4:15.

Amos 4:3 Masoretic Text with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression.

Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets.

Amos 3:12 Or Israelites be rescued, / those who sit in Samaria / on the edge of their beds / and in Damascus on their couches.

Amos 3:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

Amos 1:1 Hebrew Joash, a variant of Jehoash.

Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel I will spare them no longer. 8 And the Lord asked me, “What do you see, ( JX) Amos? ( JY)” ( JW)ħ This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand.

“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said. 5 Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small! ( JU)”

( JR)Ĥ This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire ( JS) it dried up the great deep and devoured ( JT) the land. 2 When they had stripped the land clean, ( JN) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? ( JO) He is so small! ( JP)” ( JK)” Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Lineħ This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: ( JL) He was preparing swarms of locusts ( JM) after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. “I will stir up a nation ( JI) against you, Israel,įrom Lebo Hamath ( JJ) to the valley of the Arabah. ( IR) The Lord Abhors the Pride of IsraelĨ The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself ( IS)-the Lord God Almighty declares: ( IP)ħ Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile ( IQ)

( IM)īut you do not grieve ( IO) over the ruin of Joseph. 6 Woe to you ( HZ) who are complacent ( IA) in Zion,Īnd to you who feel secure ( IB) on Mount Samaria, ( IC)Īnd then go down to Gath ( IG) in Philistia.Īre they better off than ( IH) your two kingdoms?ĥ You strum away on your harps ( IL) like DavidĪnd improvise on musical instruments.