Amos 5:1
Hebrew Bible
1 Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel: 2 “The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again. She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up.” 3 The Sovereign Lord says this:“The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.”
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Amos 5:1
Septuagint
1 Hear this word of the Lord, a lamentation that I am receiving against you, O house of Israel: 2 “She fell, never again to stand; the virgin Israel fell upon her land; there is no one who will raise her up.” 3 Because of this, thus says the lord Lord, “The city from which thousands used to go out, one hundred will be left remaining, and from which one hundred used to go out, ten will be left remaining for the house of Israel.”
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Dissociation from the nations is mirrored sometimes also terminologically: the translators of Septuagint avoid the term µάντις for “prophet” ... This topic, known from Tobit 14:4 caused changes in Amos 5:1; Jeremiah 1:1; 45:27; 51:29. Some of them can be caused by the Vorlage; in other cases it is uncertain. In Jeremiah 33[26]:7, where איבנ ('prophet') is translated by ψευδοπροφήτης ('false prophet'), the lack of divine authority is marked. It is not possible that a prophet who is really sent by God would partake in the priest’s activity against Jeremiah ..."
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