< Amos 3 >
1 to hear: hear [obj] [the] word [the] this which to speak: speak LORD upon you son: descendant/people Israel upon all [the] family which to ascend: establish from land: country/planet Egypt to/for to say
Hear you this word, O house of Israel, which the Lord has spoken concerning you, and against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 except [obj] you to know from all family [the] land: planet upon so to reckon: punish upon you [obj] all iniquity: crime your
You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.
3 to go: walk two together lest if: surely no to appoint
Shall two walk together at all, if they do not know one another?
4 to roar lion in/on/with wood and prey nothing to/for him to give: cry out lion voice his from habitation his lest if: until to capture
Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a [lion's] whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?
5 to fall: fall bird upon snare [the] land: country/planet and snare nothing to/for her to ascend: rise snare from [the] land: soil and to capture not to capture
Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything?
6 if: surely yes to blow trumpet in/on/with city and people not to tremble if: until to be distress: harm in/on/with city and LORD not to make: do
Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?
7 for not to make: do Lord YHWH/God word: thing that if: except if: except to reveal: reveal counsel his to(wards) servant/slave his [the] prophet
For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.
8 lion to roar who? not to fear Lord YHWH/God to speak: speak who? not to prophesy
A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?
9 to hear: proclaim upon citadel: fortress in/on/with Ashdod and upon citadel: fortress in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt and to say to gather upon mountain: mount Samaria and to see: see tumult many in/on/with midst her and oppression in/on/with entrails: among her
Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.
10 and not to know to make: do upright utterance LORD [the] to store violence and violence in/on/with citadel: fortress their
And she knew not what things would come against her, says the Lord, [even] those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.
11 to/for so thus to say Lord YHWH/God enemy and around [the] land: country/planet and to go down from you strength your and to plunder citadel: fortress your
Therefore thus says the Lord God; O Tyre, your land shall be made desolate round about [you]; and he shall bring down your strength out of you, and your countries shall be spoiled.
12 thus to say LORD like/as as which to rescue [the] to pasture from lip [the] lion two leg or piece ear so to rescue son: descendant/people Israel [the] to dwell in/on/with Samaria in/on/with side bed and in/on/with silk bed
Thus says the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of [a foreign] tribe, and in Damascus.
13 to hear: hear and to testify in/on/with house: household Jacob utterance Lord YHWH/God God [the] army
Hear, O you priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, says the Lord God Almighty.
14 for in/on/with day to reckon: punish I transgression Israel upon him and to reckon: punish upon altar Bethel Bethel and to cut down/off horn [the] altar and to fall: fall to/for land: soil
For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.
15 and to smite house: home [the] autumn upon house: home [the] summer and to perish house: home [the] tooth: ivory and to snatch house: home many utterance LORD
I will crush and strike the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, says the Lord.