Amos 7:4 {3}
Good News Translation
I had another vision from the Sovereign LORD. In it I saw him preparing to punish his people with fire. The fire burned up the great ocean under the earth and started to burn up the land.

New Revised Standard Version
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: the Lord GOD was calling for a shower of fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD showed me that he is going to send a ball of fire to burn up everything on earth, including the ocean.

New American Bible
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was summoning a rain of fire. It had devoured the great abyss and was consuming the fields.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.

shewed.

Amos 7:1,7 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert. . . .

Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, as it were, of a trumpet speaking with me, said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things which must be done hereafter.

called.

Amos 1:4,7 And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devour the houses of Benadad. . . .

Amos 4:11 I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Amos 5:6 Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.

Exodus 9:23,24 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. . . .

Leviticus 10:2 And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died before the Lord.

Numbers 16:35 And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

Isaiah 27:4 There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

Isaiah 66:15,16 For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke with flames of fire. . . .

Jeremiah 4:4 Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways.

Joel 2:30 And I will shew wonders in heaven; and in earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.

Micah 1:4 For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.

Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall resist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out like fire: and the rocks are melted by him.

Hebrews 1:7 And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.

Context
The Locusts, Fire, and Plumb Line
3And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little? 4The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.5These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22
A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

Isaiah 66:15
For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 66:16
For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Joel 1:19
To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country.

Amos 2:5
And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

Amos 7:3
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