Psalms 78:55

78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;

he assigned them their tribal allotments ¹ 

and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down. ² 

Amos 7:17

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

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ³ 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ⁴ 

Your land will be given to others ⁵ 

and you will die in a foreign ⁶  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁷  away from its land.’”

[78:55]  ¹ tn Heb “he caused to fall [to] them with a measuring line an inheritance.”

[78:55]  ² tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”

[7:17]  ³ tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

[7:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

[7:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”

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