Four Prophets


Four Prophets: Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah: A Modern Translation from the Hebrew by J. B. Phillips is a modern translation from Hebrew sources of the books of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah by scholar J. B. Phillips. The book was published in 1963 Macmillan in the US and Geoffrey Bles in the UK. Phillips also published The New Testament in Modern English. The remainder of the Old Testament was never completed by him.

Textual example

Excerpt from First Isaiah 21:1-2, translated in a "thought-for-thought" pattern:
The same text from the American Standard Version translation, a "word-for-word" translation: