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If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? King James Bible Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? New King James Version If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be ...
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As the trumpet, when blown in the city, frightens the people...
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6 KJV - Amos 3:6 If a ram's horn sounds in a city, do the...
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6 NASB - Amos 3:6 If a ram's horn sounds in a city, do the...
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Jan 8, 2023 · Firstly, the biblehub interlinear translates Amos 3:6b as :. If there is a calamity in a city Yahweh not will have done (it) This implies, to me, that Jehovah causes 'calamities' but the text does not specify the nature or the reason for the adverse occurrence.
As the trumpet, when blown in the city, frightens the people out of their self-security, so will the voice of the prophet, who proclaims the coming evil, excite a salutary alarm in the nation (cf. Ezekiel 33:1-5). For the calamity which is bursting upon the city comes from Jehovah, is sent by Him as a punishment.
(2) When the calamities bear a particular relation to, and often times the very stamp and character of the sin.Then if the Lord hath at this time drawn a sword against us, let us also proclaim war against the sins which caused them; always remembering that as there is no evil in a city but from the Lord, so there is no deliverance but from Him ...
If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it? Surely the Lord GOD does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who can but prophesy?
Amos 3:6. ESV Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it? NIV When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it? NASB If a trumpet is blown in a city, will the people not tremble?
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Later, in Amos 4:6-12, God tells us that we have missed the meaning of all the disasters we have endured in recent years. Using famine, drought, crop failure, epidemics, and "natural" disasters as examples of divine wake-up calls, He says, "Yet you have not returned to Me" (verses 6, 8-11). For a people who know God, calamity is not haphazard!