Amos 9:15

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the ¹  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 ² 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ³ 

Your land will be given to others ⁴ 

and you will die in a foreign ⁵  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁶  away from its land.’”

Amos 5:2

5:2 “The virgin ⁷  Israel has fallen down and will not get up again.

She is abandoned on her own land

with no one to help her get up.” ⁸ 

Amos 7:11

7:11 As a matter of fact, ⁹  Amos is saying this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly be carried into exile ¹⁰  away from its land.’”

Amos 3:2

3:2 “I have chosen ¹¹  you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

Amos 3:5

3:5 Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait?

Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?

Amos 9:8

9:8 Look, the sovereign Lord is watching ¹²  the sinful nation, ¹³ 

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

But I will not completely destroy the family ¹⁴  of Jacob,” says the Lord.

[9:15]  ¹ tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:17]  ² tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

[7:17]  ³ tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

[7:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”

[7:17]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.

[5:2]  ³ tn Or “young lady.” The term “Israel” is an appositional genitive.

[5:2]  ⁴ tn Or “with no one to lift her up.”

[7:11]  ⁴ tn Or “for.”

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

[3:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “You only have I known.” The Hebrew verb יָדַע (yada’) is used here in its covenantal sense of “recognize in a special way.”

[9:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “the eyes of the sovereign Lord are on.”

[9:8]  ⁷ tn Or “kingdom.”

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