17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: ‘Your (A)wife will become a prostitute in the city, your (B)sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line, and you yourself will die [a]upon (C)unclean soil. Furthermore Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”

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  1. Amos 7:17 Or in an unclean land

17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute(A) in the city,
    and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
    and you yourself will die in a pagan[a] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,(B)
    away from their native land.(C)’”

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  1. Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean

10 All the (A)sinners of My people will die by the sword,
Those who say, ‘(B)The catastrophe will not overtake or confront us.’

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10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,(A)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’(B)

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