Amos 5

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

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:

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.

“The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is 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.

For the Lord GOD says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

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

For the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will 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.

but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall 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 you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

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

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

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.

Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface 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.

who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

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

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

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 take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

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 how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

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

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

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, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

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, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, 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 the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

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

In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says the LORD.

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 desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is 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.

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

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

Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand 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.

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

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 rivers, and righteousness like a mighty 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 to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, 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 also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which 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 cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Armies.