Amos 7:17

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

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ¹ 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ² 

Your land will be given to others ³ 

and you will die in a foreign ⁴  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁵  away from its land.’”

Amos 8:11

8:11 Be certain of this, ⁶  the time is ⁷  coming,” says the sovereign Lord,

“when I will send a famine through the land –

not a shortage of food or water

but an end to divine revelation! ⁸ 

[7:17]  ¹ tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

[7:17]  ² tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

[7:17]  ³ tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”

[7:17]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.

[8:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

[8:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “the days are.”

[8:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “not a hunger for food or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.”