Amos 7:16
And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the house of the idol.
Challoner: The house of the idolViz., of the calf worshipped in Bethel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et nunc audi verbum Domini : Tu dicis : Non prophetabis super Israël, et non stillabis super domum idoli.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ νῦν ἄκουε λόγον Κυρίου Σὺ λέγεις Μὴ προφήτευε ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὀχλαγωγήσεις ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰακώβ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעַתָּ֖ה שְׁמַ֣ע דְּבַר יְהוָ֑ה אַתָּ֣ה אֹמֵ֗ר לֹ֤א תִנָּבֵא֙ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְלֹ֥א תַטִּ֖יף עַל בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂחָֽק
Haydock's commentary
Drop; menaces, Ezechiel xx. 46. Septuagint, "thou shalt not disturb (Calmet) or threaten the house of Jacob." (St. Jerome)
Idol; the calf, worshipped in Bethel. (Challoner)
Hebrew, "Isaac," as [in] ver. 9. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.