5:11 Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops 1
and exact a grain tax from them,
you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone,
nor will you drink the wine from the fine 2 vineyards you planted. 3
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.’”
1 tn Traditionally, “because you trample on the poor” (cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The traditional view derives the verb from בּוּס (bus, “to trample”; cf. Isa. 14:25), but more likely it is cognate to an Akkadian verb meaning “to exact an agricultural tax” (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 49; S. M. Paul, Amos [Hermeneia], 172-73).
2 tn Or “lovely”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “pleasant”; NAB “choice”; NIV “lush.”
3 tn Heb “Houses of chiseled stone you built, but you will not live in them. Fine vineyards you planted, but you will not drink their wine.”
4 tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”
5 tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”
6 tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”
7 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).
8 tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.