Amos 2:14

2:14 Fast runners will find no place to hide;

strong men will have no strength left;

warriors will not be able to save their lives.

Amos 3:10

3:10 “They do not know how to do what is right.” (The Lord is speaking.)

“They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.

Amos 6:4

6:4 They lie around on beds decorated with ivory,

and sprawl out on their couches.

They eat lambs from the flock,

and calves from the middle of the pen.

Amos 9:15

9:15 I will plant them on their land

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

says the Lord your God.


tn Heb “and a place of refuge will perish from the swift.”

tn Heb “the strong will not increase his strength.”

tn Heb “those who.”

tn Heb “violence and destruction.” The expression “violence and destruction” stand metonymically for the goods the oppressors have accumulated by their unjust actions.

tn Heb “beds of ivory.”

tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.