Amos 7:4
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.
KJV
Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus : et ecce vocabat judicium ad ignem Dominus Deus ; et devoravit abyssum multam, et comedit simul partem.
Vulgate
Οὕτως ἔδειξέν μοι Κύριος, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐκάλεσεν τὴν δίκην ἐν πυρὶ Κύριος, καὶ κατέφαγε τὴν ἄβυσσον τὴν πολλήν, καὶ κατέφαγεν τὴν μερίδα Κυρίου.
LXX
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.
ASV
כֹּ֤ה הִרְאַ֨/נִי֙ אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהוִ֔ה וְ/הִנֵּ֥ה קֹרֵ֛א לָ/רִ֥ב בָּ/אֵ֖שׁ אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהוִ֑ה וַ/תֹּ֨אכַל֙ אֶת תְּה֣וֹם רַבָּ֔ה וְ/אָכְלָ֖ה אֶת הַ/חֵֽלֶק
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Amos 7:1 — Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
- Amos 8:1 — Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
- Isa 66:15 — For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Isa 66:15 — For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Job 1:16 — While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to t
- Joel 1:19 — O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
- Joel 2:3 — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.