Amos 4:5

4:5 Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! ¹ 

Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! ² 

For you love to do this, you Israelites.”

The sovereign Lord is speaking!

Amos 5:8

5:8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;

he can turn the darkness into morning

and daylight ³  into night.

He summons the water of the seas

and pours it out on the earth’s surface.

The Lord is his name!

Amos 7:4

7:4 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw ⁴  the sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire. ⁵  It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.

Amos 9:6

9:6 He builds the upper rooms of his palace ⁶  in heaven

and sets its foundation supports ⁷  on the earth. ⁸ 

He summons the water of the sea

and pours it out on the earth’s surface.

The Lord is his name.

Amos 9:12

9:12 As a result they ⁹  will conquer those left in Edom ¹⁰ 

and all the nations subject to my rule.” ¹¹ 

The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking!

[4:5]  ¹ sn For the background of the thank offering of bread made with yeast, see Lev 7:13.

[4:5]  ² tn Heb “proclaim voluntary offerings, announce.”

[5:8]  ³ tn Heb “darkens the day into night.”

[7:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

[7:4]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew appears to read, “summoning to contend with fire,” or “summoning fire to contend,” but both are problematic syntactically (H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos [Hermeneia], 292; S. M. Paul, Amos [Hermeneia], 230-31). Many emend the text to לרבב אשׁ, “(calling) for a shower of fire,” though this interpretation is also problematic (see F. I. Andersen and D. N. Freedman, Amos [AB], 746-47).

[9:6]  ⁷ tc The MT reads “his steps.” If this is correct, then the reference may be to the steps leading up to the heavenly temple or the throne of God (cf. 1 Kgs 10:19-20). The prefixed מ (mem) may be dittographic (note the preceding word ends in mem). The translation assumes an emendation to עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper rooms”).

[9:6]  ⁸ tn Traditionally, “vault” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV). The precise meaning of this word in this context is unclear. Elsewhere it refers to objects grouped or held together. F. I. Andersen and D. N. Freedman (Amos [AB], 845-46) suggest the foundational structure of a building is in view.

[9:6]  ⁹ sn Verse 6a pictures the entire universe as a divine palace founded on the earth and extending into the heavens.

[9:12]  ⁹ sn They probably refers to the Israelites or to the Davidic rulers of the future.

[9:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “take possession of the remnant of Edom”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “possess the remnant of Edom.”

[9:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “nations over whom my name is proclaimed.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership, sometimes as a result of conquest. See 2 Sam 12:28.