Amos 7:17

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

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ¹ 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ² 

Your land will be given to others ³ 

and you will die in a foreign ⁴  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁵  away from its land.’”

Amos 8:2

8:2 He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end ⁶  has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins. ⁷ 

[7:17]  ¹ tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

[7:17]  ² tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

[7:17]  ³ tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”

[7:17]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.

[8:2]  ⁶ tn There is a wordplay here. The Hebrew word קֵץ (qets, “end”) sounds like קָיִץ (qayits, “summer fruit”). The summer fruit arrived toward the end of Israel’s agricultural year; Israel’s national existence was similarly at an end.

[8:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will no longer pass over him.”