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Amos 7:4

2 And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

3 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

5 Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

6 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

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BSB
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
KJV
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
WEB
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
ASV
Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called to content by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
DARBY
Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and ate up the inheritance.
BLB
Thus [has] the Lord YHWH shown me: And behold, the Lord YHWH was calling to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and it was devouring the portion.
ÅB
Så lot Herren, Israels Gud, meg se dette syn: Herren, Israels Gud, kalte på ilden til straff, og den fortærte det store vanndyp, og den holdt på å fortære hans arvelodd.
OTB
Dette er hva Herren Gud viste meg: Han kalte på dom ved ild, som tørket opp det store dypet og begynte å fortære landet.
B1930
Så lot Herren, Israels Gud, mig se dette syn: Herren, Israels Gud, kalte på ilden til straff, og den fortærte det store vanndyp, og den holdt på å fortære hans arvelodd.

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Cross references

  • Amos 7:1

    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

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  • Isaiah 66:15–16

    For behold, the LORD will come with fire— His chariots are like a whirlwind— to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

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  • Amos 4:11

    “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

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  • Amos 7:7

    This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

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  • Exodus 9:23–24

    So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

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  • Revelation 4:1

    After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

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  • Hebrews 1:7

    Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”

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  • Joel 2:30

    I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

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