Amos 7
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Amos 7:1-2

1Thus the Lord 1God showed me, and behold, He was forming a 2locust-swarm 3when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s 4mowing. 2And it came about, 5when it had 6finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, “7Lord God, please pardon! 8How can Jacob stand, For he is 9small?”

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Notes

  1. 1. Amos 7:1 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
  2. 2. Amos 7:1 Joel 1:4; Amos 4:9; Nah 3:15 ↩
  3. 3. Amos 7:1 Lit at the beginning of the coming up of ↩
  4. 4. Amos 7:1 Or shearings ↩
  5. 5. Amos 7:2 Lit if ↩
  6. 6. Amos 7:2 Ex 10:15 ↩
  7. 7. Amos 7:2 Jer 14:7, 20, 21; Ezek 9:8; 11:13 ↩
  8. 8. Amos 7:2 Lit As who ↩
  9. 9. Amos 7:2 Is 37:4; Jer 42:2 ↩

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