Amo 7:2-6 | TNotes | STEP | 7:2 Israel is so small: The population base of the kingdom was not large enough to survive such radical depletion.

‏ Amos 7:2-6

7:2 ^a Israel is so small: The population base of the kingdom was not large enough to survive such radical depletion.
Summary for Amos 7:3-6: 7:3-6 ^b The Lord relented twice in response to Amos’s intercession.
7:4 ^c This fire symbolizes oppressive heat and drought.

• depths of the sea: Although the Hebrew word properly indicates the sea, Amos probably did not suppose that the Mediterranean would disappear. More likely, this is a poetic reference to large bodies of fresh water (such as the Kinnereth Sea/Sea of Galilee) that Israel could use to irrigate its fields.