Amos 5:20

5:20 Don’t you realize the Lord’s day of judgment will bring ¹  darkness, not light –

gloomy blackness, not bright light?

Amos 7:16

7:16 So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach ²  against the family of Isaac!’

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¹ tn Heb “Will not the day of the Lord be.”

² tn The verb, which literally means “to drip,” appears to be a synonym of “to prophesy,” but it might carry a derogatory tone here, perhaps alluding to the impassioned, frenzied way in which prophets sometimes delivered their messages. If so, one could translate, “to drivel; to foam at the mouth” (see HALOT 694 s.v. נטף).