Amos 5

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

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

2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast 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 saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have an hundred left, and that which went forth an hundred shall have 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 saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye 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 Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

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 the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in 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 turn judgment to 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 [seek him] that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon 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 bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

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

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

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

11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

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 how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].

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 he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a 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 ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.

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 judgment in the gate: it may be that 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 saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to 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 shall be wailing: for I will pass through the midst of thee, 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 desire the day of the LORD! wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD? 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 if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit 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 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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

21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

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

22 Yea, though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

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 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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

24 But let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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

25 Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the 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 Yea, ye have borne Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

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

27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

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