Discovery BoxAmos 7:17 
Context7:17 “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.’”
1 tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”
2 tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”
3 tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”
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).
