Amos 4:3

4:3 Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; ¹ 

you will be thrown out ²  toward Harmon.” ³ 

The Lord is speaking!

Amos 8:3

8:3 The women singing in the temple ⁴  will wail in that day.”

The sovereign Lord is speaking.

“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! ⁵  Be quiet!”

[4:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and [through the] breaches you will go out, each straight ahead.”

[4:3]  ² 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]  ³ 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”).

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Or “palace” (NASB, NCV, TEV).

[8:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “Many corpses in every place he will throw out.” The subject of the verb is probably impersonal, though many emend the active (Hiphil) form to a passive (Hophal): “Many corpses in every place will be thrown out.”