Amos 7:17

“You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.”

Shares the theme of unfulfilled labor and loss as judgment.

“In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with bitter words and say, ‘We are utterly ruined; my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

Shares the theme of exile and loss of property.

“They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such food will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.”

Shares the theme of religious defilement and inability to worship.

“until the LORD removed Israel from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried off into exile from their own land to Assyria, and they are still there.”

Shares the theme of exile from the land as divine punishment.

“Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.”

Shares the theme of losing inheritance and homes to foreigners.