Amos 7:4 “This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judg…”

Amos 7:4

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus also hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and behold, the Lord God called to iudgement by fire, and it deuoured the great deepe, and did eate vp a part.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and lo, the Lord Jehovah is calling to contend by fire, and it consumeth the great deep, yea, it hath consumed the portion, and I say:

Bible in Basic English

This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

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Cross references

“shewed”

Amos 7:1 Amos 7:7 Revelation 4:1

Amos 7:1 · BSB

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.

Amos 7:7 · BSB

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

Revelation 4:1 · BSB

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.”

“called”

Amos 1:4 Amos 1:7 Amos 4:11 Amos 5:6 Leviticus 10:2 Numbers 16:35

Amos 1:4 · BSB

So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.

Amos 1:7 · BSB

So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.

Amos 4:11 · BSB

“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.

Amos 5:6 · BSB

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Leviticus 10:2 · BSB

So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.

Numbers 16:35 · BSB

And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Also

Deuteronomy 32:22

Deuteronomy 32:22 · BSB

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

Read Amos 7