Amos 3:6

3:6 If an alarm sounds ¹  in a city, do people not fear? ² 

If disaster overtakes a ³  city, is the Lord not responsible? ⁴ 

Amos 4:11

4:11 “I overthrew some of you the way God ⁵  overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ⁶ 

You were like a burning stick ⁷  snatched from the flames.

Still you did not come back to me.”

The Lord is speaking!

Amos 5:14

5:14 Seek good and not evil so you can live!

Then the Lord, the God who commands armies, just might be with you,

as you claim he is.

Amos 7:2

7:2 When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said,

“Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! ⁸ 

How can Jacob survive? ⁹ 

He is too weak!” ¹⁰ 

Amos 8:9

8:9 In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon,

and make the earth dark in the middle of the day. ¹¹ 

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “If the ram’s horn is blown.”

[3:6]  ² tn Or “tremble” (NASB, NIV, NCV); or “shake.”

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “is in”; NIV, NCV, NLT “comes to.”

[3:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “has the Lord not acted?”

[4:11]  ⁵ tn Several English versions substitute the first person pronoun (“I”) here for stylistic reasons (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[4:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “like God’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.” The divine name may be used in an idiomatic superlative sense here, in which case one might translate, “like the great [or “disastrous”] overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

[4:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “like that which is burning.”

[7:2]  ⁹ tn “Israel” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[7:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stand” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[7:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “small.”

[8:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “in a day of light.”