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Amos 4:3
New English Translation
Amos 4:3
New English Translation
3 Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls;[a]
you will be thrown out[b] toward Harmon.”[c]
The Lord is speaking.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:3 tn Heb “and [through the] breaches you will go out, each straight ahead.”
- Amos 4:3 tn The Hiphil verb form has no object. It may be intransitive (F. I. Andersen and D. N. Freedman, Amos [AB], 425), though many emend it to a Hophal.
- Amos 4:3 tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Many understand it as a place name, though such a location is not known. Some (e.g., H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos [Hermeneia], 204) emend to “Hermon” or to similarly written words, such as “the dung heap” (NEB, NJPS), “the garbage dump” (NCV), or “the fortress” (cf. NLT “your fortresses”).
Amos 4:3
New International Version
Amos 4:3
New International Version
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Footnotes
- Amos 4:3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression
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