Amos 5

1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, as a lamentation, O house of Israel.

to hear: hear [obj] [the] word [the] this which I to lift: loud upon you dirge house: household Israel

2 She is fallen, she will not rise again—the virgin of Israel: she is thrown down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

to fall: fall not to add: again to arise: rise virgin Israel to leave upon land: soil her nothing to arise: raise her

3 For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, The city that goeth forth with a thousand shall retain but a hundred, and she that goeth forth with a hundred shall retain but ten, [left] to the house of Israel.

for thus to say Lord YHWH/God [the] city [the] to come out: come thousand to remain hundred and [the] to come out: come hundred to remain ten to/for house: household Israel

4 For thus hath said the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye for me, and ye shall live;

for thus to say LORD to/for house: household Israel to seek me and to live

5 But seek not for Beth-el, and into Gilgal enter not, and to Beer-sheba' do not pass over; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Beth-el shall become naught.

and not to seek Bethel Bethel and [the] Gilgal not to come (in): come and Beersheba Beersheba not to pass for [the] Gilgal to reveal: remove to reveal: remove and Bethel Bethel to be to/for evil: trouble

6 Seek for the Lord, and ye shall live: so that he come not suddenly like fire over the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el;

to seek [obj] LORD and to live lest to rush like/as fire house: household Joseph and to eat and nothing to quench to/for Bethel Bethel

7 Ye who change justice into wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

[the] to overturn to/for wormwood justice and righteousness to/for land: country/planet to rest

8 [But] he maketh the seven stars and Orion, and changeth into morning the shadow of death, and maketh the day dark into night; he it is that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name;

to make Pleiades and Orion and to overturn to/for morning shadow and day night to darken [the] to call: call to to/for water [the] sea and to pour: pour them upon face: surface [the] land: country/planet LORD name his

9 That causeth wasting to prevail against the strong, so that wasting shall come against the fortress.

[the] be cheerful violence upon strong and violence upon fortification to come (in): come

10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and him that speaketh uprightly they abhor.

to hate in/on/with gate to rebuke and to speak: speak unblemished: blameless to abhor

11 Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor, and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn: if ye have built houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine.

to/for so because to trample you upon poor and tribute grain to take: take from him house: home cutting to build and not to dwell in/on/with them vineyard delight to plant and not to drink [obj] wine their

12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your numerous sins: ye are those that are the adversaries of the just, that take a ransom, and that wrest [the cause of] the needy in the gate.

for to know many transgression your and mighty sin your to vex righteous to take: take ransom and needy in/on/with gate to stretch

13 Therefore will the intelligent keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

to/for so [the] be prudent in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to silence: silent for time distress: evil he/she/it

14 Seek for the good, and not the evil, in order that ye may live: and so will the Lord, the God of hosts, be with you, as ye have said.

to seek good and not bad: evil because to live and to be so LORD God Hosts with you like/as as which to say

15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice firmly in the gate: perhaps the Lord the God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

to hate bad: evil and to love: lover good and to set in/on/with gate justice perhaps be gracious LORD God Hosts remnant Joseph

16 Therefore thus hath said the Eternal, the God of hosts, the Lord, On all public places there is lamentation, and in all the streets they cry, Woe! woe! and they call the husbandman to mourning, and to lamentation those skilled in wailing.

to/for so thus to say LORD God Hosts Lord in/on/with all street/plaza mourning and in/on/with all outside to say Ah! Ah! and to call: call out farmer to(wards) mourning and mourning to(wards) to know wailing

17 And in all vineyards there is lamentation; for I will pass through thy midst, saith the Lord.

and in/on/with all vineyard mourning for to pass in/on/with entrails: among your to say LORD

18 Woe unto you that long for the day of the Lord! for what do you wish the day of the Lord? it is [one of] darkness, and not of light.

woe! [the] to desire [obj] day LORD to/for what? this to/for you day LORD he/she/it darkness and not light

19 As if a man were to flee from a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he enter into the house, and lean his hand against the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

like/as as which to flee man: anyone from face: before [the] lion and to fall on him [the] bear and to come (in): come [the] house: home and to support hand his upon [the] wall and to bite him [the] serpent

20 Behold the day of the Lord is [one of] darkness, and not of light; yea, it is obscure, and hath no brightness.

not darkness day LORD and not light and gloom and not brightness to/for him

21 I hate, I despise your feast-days, and I will not smell [the sacrifices] on your festive assemblies.

to hate to reject feast your and not to smell in/on/with assembly your

22 For though ye should offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings, I will not accept them in favor: and the peace-offerings of your fatted cattle will I not look at.

that if: except if: except to ascend: offer up to/for me burnt offering and offering your not to accept and peace offering fatling your not to look

23 Remove thou from around me the noise of thy songs: and the playing of thy psalteries I will not hear.

to turn aside: remove from upon me crowd song your and melody harp your not to hear: hear

24 But let justice roll along like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

and to roll like/as water justice and righteousness like/as torrent: river strong

25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and meat-offerings in the wilderness [during] forty years, O house of Israel?

sacrifice and offering to approach: bring to/for me in/on/with wilderness forty year house: household Israel

26 Bear then the canopy of your chief idol, and the figure of your images, the star of your god, which ye have made for yourselves.

and to lift: raise [obj] Sikkuth king your and [obj] Kiyyun image your star God your which to make to/for you

27 And I will cause you to go into exile far beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, The God of hosts is his name.

and to reveal: remove [obj] you from further to/for Damascus to say LORD God Hosts name his