Amos 7:11

7:11 As a matter of fact, ¹  Amos is saying this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly be carried into exile ²  away from its land.’”

Amos 9:15

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the ³  land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

Amos 7:17

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

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ⁴ 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ⁵ 

Your land will be given to others ⁶ 

and you will die in a foreign ⁷  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁸  away from its land.’”

Amos 9:8

9:8 Look, the sovereign Lord is watching ⁹  the sinful nation, ¹⁰ 

and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.

But I will not completely destroy the family ¹¹  of Jacob,” says the Lord.

[7:11]  ¹ tn Or “for.”

[7:11]  ² tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.

[9:15]  ³ tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[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.

[9:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “the eyes of the sovereign Lord are on.”

[9:8]  ⁸ tn Or “kingdom.”

[9:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).