Amos 4:10

4:10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. ¹ 

I killed your young men with the sword,

along with the horses you had captured.

I made the stench from the corpses ²  rise up into your nostrils.

Still you did not come back to me.”

The Lord is speaking!

Amos 7:17

7:17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ³ 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ⁴ 

Your land will be given to others ⁵ 

and you will die in a foreign ⁶  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁷  away from its land.’”

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “in the manner [or “way”] of Egypt.”

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “of your camps [or “armies”].”

[7:17]  ³ tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

[7:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

[7:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”

[7:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “[an] unclean”; or “[an] impure.” This fate would be especially humiliating for a priest, who was to distinguish between the ritually clean and unclean (see Lev 10:10).

[7:17]  ⁷ tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.