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OET (OET-LV) And_ YHWH _he/it_said to_me what are_you seeing Oh_ʼĀmōʦ and_I_said tin my_master and_he/it_said here_I am_about_to_put tin in_the_midst_of my_people_of_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) not I_will_repeat again to_pass_by to_him/it.
OET (OET-RV) and he asked me, “Amos, what do you see?”
¶ “A plumb line,” I answered.
¶ “Listen, I’ll drop a plumb-line down to check out my people Yisrael,” my master said. “Never again will I spare them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
(Occurrence 0) what do you see?
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said YHWH to=me what you(ms) see ʼĀmōʦ and,I_said plumb_line and=he/it_said my=master here,I setting plumb_line in,the_midst_of my_people_of,of Yisrael not I_will_do_again again/more spare to=him/it )
Yahweh uses a question to teach Amos. Alternate translation: “tell me what you see.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
(Occurrence 0) I will put a plumb line among my people Israel
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said YHWH to=me what you(ms) see ʼĀmōʦ and,I_said plumb_line and=he/it_said my=master here,I setting plumb_line in,the_midst_of my_people_of,of Yisrael not I_will_do_again again/more spare to=him/it )
Judging the people and determining they are wicked is spoken of as if the Israelites were a wall, and Yahweh determines the wall is not straight by using a plumb line. Alternate translation: “my people Israel are wicked. They are like a wall that is not straight up and down”
7:8 The Hebrew word translated plumb line (Hebrew ’anak) is similar to the word for groaning (’anakhah, see Isa 35:10; Lam 1:22), alluding to great suffering when God would hold Israel accountable.
OET (OET-LV) And_ YHWH _he/it_said to_me what are_you seeing Oh_ʼĀmōʦ and_I_said tin my_master and_he/it_said here_I am_about_to_put tin in_the_midst_of my_people_of_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) not I_will_repeat again to_pass_by to_him/it.
OET (OET-RV) and he asked me, “Amos, what do you see?”
¶ “A plumb line,” I answered.
¶ “Listen, I’ll drop a plumb-line down to check out my people Yisrael,” my master said. “Never again will I spare them.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.