Amós 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
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Study Note
Amos' rhetorical question 'shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?' appears in a chain of cause-effect pairs (3:3–8) designed to establish the logical inevitability of prophetic proclamation: just as no event is causally uncaused, no prophecy is unbidden by divine commission. The Hebrew ra'ah here likely means 'calamity/disaster' rather than moral evil (the context is the trumpet announcing military attack), so the verse affirms divine sovereignty over historical catastrophe rather than divine authorship of moral evil. The verse is a key text for discussions of divine providence and evil in Old Testament theology, anticipating the theodicy wrestlings of Job and Lamentations. Isaiah 45:7's parallel statement ('I form light and create darkness; I make peace and create calamity') draws on the same theological tradition.
Otras traducciones
Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?
Is a trumpet blown in a city, And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, And Jehovah hath not done <FI>it<Fi> ?
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
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