Amos 9

1 I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He says, “Strike the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head—all of them, And I slay their posterity with a sword, None that flee of them flee away, Nor a fugitive of them escape.

to see: see [obj] Lord to stand upon [the] altar and to say to smite [the] capital and to shake [the] threshold and to cut off them in/on/with head all their and end their in/on/with sword to kill not to flee to/for them to flee and not to escape to/for them survivor

2 If they dig through into Sheol, From there My hand takes them, And if they go up [to] the heavens, From there I cause them to come down. (Sheol h7585)

if to dig in/on/with hell: Sheol from there hand: power my to take: take them and if to ascend: rise [the] heaven from there to go down them (Sheol h7585)

3 And if they are hid in the top of Carmel, From there I search out, and have taken them, And if they are hid from My eyes in the bottom of the sea, From there I command the serpent, And it has bitten them.

and if to hide in/on/with head: top [the] Carmel from there to search and to take: take them and if to hide from before eye: seeing my in/on/with floor [the] sea from there to command [obj] [the] serpent and to bite them

4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I command the sword, And it has slain them, And I have set My eye on them for evil, And not for good.”

and if to go: went in/on/with captivity to/for face: before enemy their from there to command [obj] [the] sword and to kill them and to set: make eye my upon them to/for distress: evil and not to/for welfare

5 And [it is] the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, Who is striking against the land, and it melts, And mourned have all the inhabitants in it, And all of it has come up as a flood, And it has sunk—like the flood of Egypt.

and Lord YHWH/God [the] Hosts [the] to touch in/on/with land: country/planet and to melt and to mourn all to dwell in/on/with her and to ascend: rise like/as Nile all her and to sink like/as Nile (Egypt *L(abh)*)

6 Who is building His upper chambers in the heavens; As for His troop, On earth He has founded it, Who is calling for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the land, YHWH [is] His Name.

[the] to build in/on/with heaven (step his *Q(K)*) and band his upon land: country/planet to found her [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

7 “Are you not as sons of Cushim to Me, O sons of Israel?” A declaration of YHWH. “Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt? And the Philistines from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?

not like/as son: descendant/people Ethiopian you(m. p.) to/for me son: descendant/people Israel utterance LORD not [obj] Israel to ascend: establish from land: country/planet Egypt and Philistine from Caphtor and Syria from Kir

8 Behold, [the] eyes of Lord YHWH [are] on the sinful kingdom, And I have destroyed it from off the face of the ground, Only, I do not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” A declaration of YHWH.

behold eye Lord YHWH/God in/on/with kingdom [the] sinner and to destroy [obj] her from upon face: surface [the] land: soil end for not to destroy to destroy [obj] house: household Jacob utterance LORD

9 “For behold, I am commanding, And I have shaken among all the nations the house of Israel, As [one] shakes with a sieve, And there does not fall a grain [to] the earth.

for behold I to command and to shake in/on/with all [the] nation [obj] house: household Israel like/as as which to shake in/on/with sieve and not to fall: fall pebble land: country/planet

10 By sword all sinners of My people die, Who are saying, Evil does not overtake, or go before, For our sakes.

in/on/with sword to die all sinner people my [the] to say not to approach: approach and to meet about/through/for us [the] distress: harm

11 In that day I raise the dwelling place of David that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And I raise up its ruins, And I have built it up as in days of old,

in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to arise: establish [obj] booth David [the] to fall: fall and to wall up/off [obj] breach their and ruins his to arise: establish and to build her like/as day forever: antiquity

12 So that they possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations on whom My Name is called,” A declaration of YHWH—the doer of this.

because to possess: possess [obj] remnant Edom and all [the] nation which to call: call by name my upon them utterance LORD to make: do this

13 “Behold, days are coming,” A declaration of YHWH, “And the plowman has come near to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed, And the mountains have dropped juice, And all the hills melt.

behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to approach: approach to plow/plot in/on/with to reap and to tread grape in/on/with to draw [the] seed and to drip/prophesy [the] mountain: mount sweet and all [the] hill to melt

14 And I have turned back [to] the captivity of My people Israel, And they have built desolate cities, and inhabited, And have planted vineyards, and drunk their wine, And made gardens, and eaten their fruit.

and to return: rescue [obj] captivity people my Israel and to build city be desolate: destroyed and to dwell and to plant vineyard and to drink [obj] wine their and to make garden and to eat [obj] fruit their

15 And I have planted them on their own ground, And they are not plucked up anymore from off their own ground, That I have given to them,” said your God YHWH!

and to plant them upon land: soil their and not to uproot still from upon land: soil their which to give: give to/for them to say LORD God your