Four Prophets
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Four Prophets is a modern translation from Hebrew sources of the books of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah by scholar J. B. Phillips
. Phillips also translated The New Testament in Modern English
. The remainder of the Old Testament
was never completed.
The book was published as Four Prophets: Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah: A Modern Translation from the Hebrew by J. B. Phillips in 1963 by The Macmillan Company, New York.
Excerpt from First Isaiah 21:1-2, translated in a "thought-for-thought" pattern:
The same text from the ASV, a "word-for-word" translation:
John Bertram Phillips
John Bertram Phillips was a Bible translator, writer and clergyman, often referred to as just J. B. Phillips....
. Phillips also translated The New Testament in Modern English
Phillips New Testament in Modern English
The Phillips New Testament in Modern English is an English translation of the New Testament of the Bible translated by Anglican clergyman J. B. Phillips. While the translation is not well known it has many ardent fans including Os Guinness, Chuck Swindoll, and the late Ray Stedman. Corrie ten...
. The remainder of the Old Testament
Old Testament
The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...
was never completed.
The book was published as Four Prophets: Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah: A Modern Translation from the Hebrew by J. B. Phillips in 1963 by The Macmillan Company, New York.
Excerpt from First Isaiah 21:1-2, translated in a "thought-for-thought" pattern:
- A Warning from the desert:
- A dreadful vision has come to me,
- Roaring out of the desert
- From the terrible land,
- Sweeping on like the wirlwinds in the south.
- The plunderer continues his plundering,
- The destroyer continues his destruction.
- Up then, men of Elam, Besiege them, men of Media!
- Put an end to their boastings.
The same text from the ASV, a "word-for-word" translation:
- The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land. A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
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