Amos 3:6

3:6 If an alarm sounds ¹  in a city, do people not fear? ² 

If disaster overtakes a ³  city, is the Lord not responsible? ⁴ 

Amos 7:17

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

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ⁵ 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ⁶ 

Your land will be given to others ⁷ 

and you will die in a foreign ⁸  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁹  away from its land.’”

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “If the ram’s horn is blown.”

[3:6]  ² tn Or “tremble” (NASB, NIV, NCV); or “shake.”

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

[3:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “has the Lord not acted?”

[7:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

[7:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

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

[7:17]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.