Amos 4:13
13 For here he is!He ▼ formed the mountains and created the wind.
He reveals ▼
▼ Or “declares” (NAB, NASB).
his plans ▼ to men. He turns the dawn into darkness ▼
▼ Heb “he who makes dawn, darkness.” The meaning of the statement is unclear. The present translation assumes that allusion is made to God’s approaching judgment, when the light of day will be turned to darkness (see 5:20). Other options include: (1) “He makes the dawn [and] the darkness.” A few Hebrew mss, as well as the LXX, add the conjunction (“and”) between the two nouns. (2) “He turns darkness into glimmering dawn” (NJPS). See S. M. Paul (Amos [Hermeneia], 154), who takes שָׁחַר (shakhar) as “blackness” rather than “dawn” and עֵיפָה (’efah) as “glimmering dawn” rather than “darkness.”
and marches on the heights of the earth.
The Lord, the God who commands armies, ▼
▼ Traditionally, “God of hosts.”
is his name!”
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