3:7 Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
7:5 I said, “Sovereign Lord, stop!
How can Jacob survive? 1
He is too weak!” 2
7:6 The Lord decided not to do this. 3 The sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.”
8:1 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 4 a basket of summer fruit. 5
1 tn Heb “stand.”
2 tn Heb “small.”
3 tn Or “changed his mind about this.”
4 tn Heb “behold” or “look.”
5 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.