Amos 5:19
Konteks5:19 Disaster will be inescapable, 1
as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear,
then escaped 2 into a house,
leaned his hand against the wall,
and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Amos 7:4
Konteks7:4 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 3 the sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire. 4 It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.
[5:19] 1 tn The words “Disaster will be inescapable” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[5:19] 2 tn Heb “went” (so KJV, NRSV).
[7:4] 3 tn Heb “behold” or “look.”
[7:4] 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).