Amos 3:7

3:7 Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

Amos 7:5-6

7:5 I said, “Sovereign Lord, stop!

How can Jacob survive?

He is too weak!”

7:6 The Lord decided not to do this. The sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.”

Amos 8:1

More Visions and Messages of Judgment

8:1 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.


tn Heb “stand.”

tn Heb “small.”

tn Or “changed his mind about this.”

tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

sn The basket of summer fruit (also in the following verse) probably refers to figs from the summer crop, which ripens in August-September. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 115.