Amos 3:1
Context3:1 Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the Lord is proclaiming against 1 you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up 2 from the land of Egypt:
Amos 7:16
Context7:16 So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach 3 against the family of Isaac!’
1 tn Or “about.”
2 tn One might expect a third person verb form (“he brought up”), since the
3 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).