Amos 5

1 Hear this word that I am bearing to you, 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 “Fallen, not to rise again, has the virgin of Israel, Left on her land—she has 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 said Lord YHWH: “The city that is going out one thousand, Leaves one hundred, And that which is going out one hundred, Leaves ten 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 said YHWH to the house of Israel: “Seek Me, and live,

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

5 And do not seek Beth-El, and do not enter Gilgal, And do not pass through Beer-Sheba, For Gilgal utterly removes, And Beth-El becomes vanity.

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 YHWH, and live, Lest He prosper as fire [against] the house of Joseph, And it has consumed, And there is no quencher for 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 You who are turning judgment to wormwood, And have put down righteousness to the earth!”

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

8 The Maker of the Pleiades and Orion, And He who is turning death-shade to the morning—And He has made day [as] dark [as] night—Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And pours them on the face of the earth, YHWH [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 Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled comes against a fortress.

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

10 They have hated a reprover in the gate, And they detest a plain speaker.

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

11 Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of grain you take from him, Houses of hewn work you have built, And you do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards you have planted, And you do 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 have known—many [are] your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And you turned aside 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 the wise is silent at 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 good, and not evil, that you may live, and it is so; YHWH, God of Hosts, [is] with you, as you 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 evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be YHWH, God of Hosts, pities 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 said YHWH, God of Hosts, the Lord: “Lamentation is in all broad places, And in all out-places they say, Oh! Oh! And called the farmer to mourning, And the skillful of wailing to lamentation.

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 [is] lamentation, For I pass into your midst,” said YHWH.

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

18 Behold, you who are desiring the Day of YHWH, Why [is] this to you—the Day of YHWH? It is darkness, and not 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 [when] one flees from the face of the lion, And the bear has met him, And he has come into the house, And has leaned his hand on the wall, And the serpent has bitten 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 Is not the Day of YHWH darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that has no brightness?

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

21 “I have hated—I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.

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

22 For though you cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And I do not behold the peace-offering of your fatlings.

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 Turn the noise of your songs aside from Me, Indeed, I do not hear the praise of your stringed instruments.

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

24 And judgment rolls on as waters, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

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

25 Did you bring sacrifices and offerings near to Me, In a wilderness 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 And you bore Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that you 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 removed you beyond Damascus,” said YHWH—God of Hosts [is] His Name.

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