Discovery BoxAmos 7:16 
Context7:16 So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach 1 against the family of Isaac!’
Amos 9:10
Context9:10 All the sinners among my people will die by the sword –
the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’
1 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).
