Amos 4:7-8 New English Translation
7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest.[a]
I gave rain to one city, but not to another.
One field[b] would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.
8 People from[c] two or three cities staggered into one city to get[d] water,
but remained thirsty.[e]
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking
Footnotes
- Amos 4:7 sn Rain…three months before the harvest refers to the rains of late March-early April.
- Amos 4:7 tn Heb “portion”; cf. KJV, ASV “piece,” NASB “part.” The same word occurs a second time later in this verse.
- Amos 4:8 tn The words “people from” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
- Amos 4:8 tn Heb “to drink.”
- Amos 4:8 tn Or “were not satisfied.”
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