Four Prophets

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:

: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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*List of Bible translators
*The Message (Bible)
*Moffatt, New Translation
*Miscellaneous English Bible translations

External links

* [http://www.bible-researcher.com/phillips.html Analysis and side by side comparisons with other New Testament translations]
* [http://www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/JBPhillips.htm The Works of J B Phillips]