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YHWHיְהוָהhas swornנִשְׁבַּעby the prideבִּגְאוֹןof Jacob:יַעֲקֹבI will neverאִם לָנֶצַחforgetאֶשְׁכַּחanyכָּלof their deeds.מַעֲשֵׂיהֶם
Amos 8:7
Study it in the app“YHWH has sworn by the pride of Jacob: I will never forget any of their deeds.”
Amos condemns those who rig the scales to take advantage of the poorJustice and mercy
With the Hebrew beneath
Amos 8:7, word by word
- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- has swornנִשְׁבַּעnishba
swear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishba” appears- by the prideגְאוֹןgeon
pride
Thinking oneself above others, a person or nation.
Where else “geon” appears- of Jacobיַעֲקֹבyaakov
Jacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appears- I will neverנֶצַחnetsach
forever
Forever, without end; with not, never again.
Where else “netsach” appears- forgetאֶשְׁכַּחeshkach
forget
Forget.
Where else “eshkach” appears- of their deedsמַעֲשֵׂיmaase
work
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maase” appears
Translation note
“The pride of Jacob”: it is what YHWH says he abhors in 6:8; it can be understood as said ironically, or as a title of YHWH, “the Pride of Jacob.”
The context
6to buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and the refuse of the wheat we will sell?”
7 · This verse (above)
8Will not the earth tremble on account of this, and everyone who lives in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink like the Nile of Egypt.