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 this word that YHWH has spoken concerning you, O sons of Israel, concerning all the family that I brought up from 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

“Only you have I known of all families of the earth, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.”

3 to go: walk two together lest if: surely no to appoint

Do two walk together if they have not met?

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

Does a lion roar in a forest and he has no prey? Does a young lion give out his voice from his habitation, If he has not caught?

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

Does a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no trap for it? Does a snare go up from the ground, And it does not capture prey?

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

Is a horn blown in a city, And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, And YHWH has not done [it]?

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 Lord YHWH does nothing, Except He has revealed His counsel 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 has roared—who does not fear? Lord YHWH has spoken—who does 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

“Sound to palaces in Ashdod, And to palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Be gathered on mountains of Samaria, And see many troubles within her, And oppressed ones in her midst.

10 and not to know to make: do upright utterance LORD [the] to store violence and violence in/on/with citadel: fortress their

And they have not known to act straightforwardly,” A declaration of YHWH, “Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.”

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 said Lord YHWH: “An adversary—and surrounding the land, And he has brought down your strength from you, And your palaces have been 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 said YHWH: “As the shepherd delivers from the lion’s mouth Two legs, or a piece of an ear, So the sons of Israel are delivered, Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, And in Damascus [on that of] a couch.

13 to hear: hear and to testify in/on/with house: household Jacob utterance Lord YHWH/God God [the] army

Hear and testify to the house of Jacob,” A declaration of Lord YHWH, God of Hosts.

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 of My charging the transgressions of Israel on him, I have laid a charge on the altars of Beth-El, And the horns of the altar have been cut off, And they have fallen to the earth.

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

And I have struck the winter-house with the summer-house, And houses of ivory have perished, And many houses have been consumed,” A declaration of YHWH!