Amos 5

1 Hear the word this which I [am] lifting up on you a lamentation O house of Israel.

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

2 She has fallen not she will repeat to rise [the] virgin of Israel she has been abandoned on own land her there not [is one who] raises up her.

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

3 For thus he says [the] Lord Yahweh the city which goes out a thousand it will have left a hundred and which goes out a hundred it will have left ten of [the] house of Israel.

This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

4 For thus he says Yahweh to [the] house of Israel seek me and live.

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

5 And may not you seek Beth-el and Gilgal not you must go and Beer Sheba not you must pass over for Gilgal certainly it will go into exile and Beth-el it will become trouble.

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

6 Seek Yahweh and live lest he should rush like fire [the] house of Joseph and it will consume and not [one who] extinguishes [it] [will belong] to Beth-el.

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

7 O those [who] turn into wormwood justice and righteousness to the ground they thrust down.

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

8 [the] maker of Pleiades and Orion and [the one who] turns into morning deep darkness and day night he makes dark the [one who] summons [the] waters of the sea and he poured out them on [the] surface of the earth [is] Yahweh name his.

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—

9 The [who] causes to flash devastation on [the] strong and devastation on a fortress it will come.

He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

10 They hate in the gate [one who] reproves and [one who] speaks blameless they abhor.

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

11 Therefore because trample you on [the] poor and a portion of grain you take from him houses of hewn [stone] you have built and not you will dwell in them vineyards of delight you have planted and not you will drink wine their.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

12 For I know many transgressions your and numerous sins your O opposers of [the] righteous O takers of ransom and needy [people] in the gate they turn aside.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

13 Therefore the prudent [person] at the time that he will be silent for [is] a time evil it.

Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

14 Seek good and may not [it be] evil so that you will live and it may be thus Yahweh God of hosts [will be] with you just as you have said.

Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

15 Hate evil and love good and set up in the gate justice perhaps he will show favor to Yahweh God of hosts [the] remnant of Joseph.

Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

16 Therefore thus he says Yahweh God of hosts [the] Lord [will be] in all [the] open places wailing and in all [the] streets people will say alas! alas! and people will call a farmer to mourning and wailing to [those who] know lamentation.

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

17 And [will be] in all [the] vineyards wailing for I will pass in midst your he says Yahweh.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,”

18 Woe to! those [who] desire [the] day of Yahweh why? this to you [the] day of Yahweh it [will be] darkness and not light.

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

19 Just as he flees someone from before the lion and it meets him the bear and he goes the house and he leans hand his on the wall and it bites him the snake.

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

20 ¿ Not [be] darkness [will] [the] day of Yahweh and not light and gloomy and not brightness [will belong] to it.

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

21 I hate I reject feasts your and not I delight in assemblies your.

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

22 That except you will offer up to me burnt offerings and grain offerings your not I will accept [them] and [the] peace offering of fatlings your not I will pay attention to.

Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

23 Remove from with me [the] noise of songs your and [the] music of lyres your not I will listen to.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24 And it may roll on like water justice and righteousness like a wadi ever-flowing.

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 ¿ Sacrifices and grain offering[s] did you bring near to me in the wilderness forty year[s] O house of Israel.

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

26 And you will lift up Sikkuth king your and Kiyyun images your [the] star of gods your which you made for yourselves.

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

27 And I will send into exile you from beyond Damascus he says [is] Yahweh God of hosts name his.

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.