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Amos 7:4

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7:4The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw8 the sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire.9 It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.

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  1. 8 Heb “behold” or “look.”
  2. 9 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], ; S. M. Paul, Amos [Hermeneia], ). 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 [], ).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. I saw him preparing to punish his people with a great fire. The fire had burned up the depths of the sea and was devouring the entire land.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, my Lord Yahweh was going to call for a legal case with fire, and it devoured the great deep and it ate up the plots of ground.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.