Amos 7:17
Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
Note Hebrew unclean
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Therefore the Lord says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou thyself shalt die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Thy wife
- Isaiah 13:16; Jeremiah 20:6; Jeremiah 28:12, 16; Jeremiah 29:21, 25, 31, 32; Lamentations 5:11; Hosea 4:13, 14; Zechariah 14:2
- thy land
- Psalm 78:55
- die
- 2 Kings 17:6; Ezekiel 4:13; Hosea 9:3
- and Israel
- Amos 7:11; Leviticus 26:33–39; Jeremiah 36:27–32