Amos 2:16

2:16 Bravehearted ¹  warriors will run away naked in that day.”

The Lord is speaking!

Amos 3:6

3:6 If an alarm sounds ²  in a city, do people not fear? ³ 

If disaster overtakes a ⁴  city, is the Lord not responsible? ⁵ 

Amos 3:10

3:10 “They do not know how to do what is right.” (The Lord is speaking.)

“They store up ⁶  the spoils of destructive violence ⁷  in their fortresses.

Amos 4:3

4:3 Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; ⁸ 

you will be thrown out ⁹  toward Harmon.” ¹⁰ 

The Lord is speaking!

[2:16]  ¹ tn Or “the most stouthearted” (NAB); NRSV “those who are stout of heart.”

[3:6]  ² tn Heb “If the ram’s horn is blown.”

[3:6]  ³ tn Or “tremble” (NASB, NIV, NCV); or “shake.”

[3:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “is in”; NIV, NCV, NLT “comes to.”

[3:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “has the Lord not acted?”

[3:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “those who.”

[3:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “violence and destruction.” The expression “violence and destruction” stand metonymically for the goods the oppressors have accumulated by their unjust actions.

[4:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and [through the] breaches you will go out, each straight ahead.”

[4:3]  ⁹ tn The Hiphil verb form has no object. It may be intransitive (F. I. Andersen and D. N. Freedman, Amos [AB], 425), though many emend it to a Hophal.

[4:3]  ¹⁰ tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Many understand it as a place name, though such a location is not known. Some (e.g., H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos [Hermeneia[, 204) emend to “Hermon” or to similarly written words, such as “the dung heap” (NEB, NJPS), “the garbage dump” (NCV), or “the fortress” (cf. NLT “your fortresses”).