Amos 4

1 to hear: hear [the] word [the] this heifer [the] Bashan which in/on/with mountain: mount Samaria [the] to oppress poor [the] to crush needy [the] to say to/for lord their to come (in): bring [emph?] and to drink

You [wealthy women] of Samaria [have grown fat like] [MET] the fat cows of the Bashan [region]. You oppress poor people and you cause needy people to suffer. And you say to your husbands, “Bring us [more wine] to drink!”

2 to swear Lord YHWH/God in/on/with holiness his for behold day to come (in): come upon you and to lift: raise [obj] you in/on/with hook and end your in/on/with thorn fishhook

But Yahweh [our] God has said this: “Because I am holy, I solemnly promise this: It will [soon] be the time when you all will be taken [to another country]; [your enemies will take you away as though they are] using sharp hooks [DOU] [to grab you].

3 and breach to come out: come woman: another before her and to throw [the] Harmon [to] utterance LORD

[Your enemies] will drag you out through breaks/holes [in your city walls], and they will throw you outside the city. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!

4 to come (in): come Bethel Bethel and to transgress [the] Gilgal to multiply to/for to transgress and to come (in): bring to/for morning sacrifice your to/for three day tithe your

Go to Bethel and Gilgal [towns where many people worship me] and sin more and more [SAR]! [I say that not because I want you to do it], [but because it is what you have always been doing]! Offer sacrifices on the morning [after you arrive], [and bring me] (a tithe/one tenth) of your crops the next day.

5 and to offer: offer from leaven thanksgiving and to call: call out voluntariness to hear: proclaim for so to love: lover son: descendant/people Israel utterance Lord YHWH/God

Bring offerings of bread to thank me, and [other] offerings that are not required/commanded, and boast about [these offerings that you bring], because that is what you like to do, [but you do it to impress others, not to please me]. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it.

6 and also I to give: give to/for you bluntness tooth in/on/with all city your and lack food: bread in/on/with all place your and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

I [am the one who] caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns [DOU], but you rejected me in spite of that.

7 and also I to withhold from you [obj] [the] rain in/on/with still three month to/for harvest and to rain upon city one and upon city one not to rain portion one to rain and portion which not to rain upon her to wither

When it was still three months before [the time of] harvesting [crops], [at the time when your crops needed rain the most], I prevented rain from falling. [Sometimes] I allowed rain to fall on some towns and prevented it from falling on other towns. Rain fell on some fields, but it did not fall on other fields, with the result that [the soil in] those fields [where it did not rain] dried up.

8 and to shake two three city to(wards) city one to/for to drink water and not to satisfy and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

People would stagger from one town to another town to find water, but they could not even get enough water to drink, but in spite of that, you have not returned to me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!

9 to smite [obj] you in/on/with blight and in/on/with mildew to multiply garden your and vineyard your and fig your and olive your to eat [the] locust and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

I caused your grain fields to dry up; I caused your gardens and vineyards to be struck/destroyed by (blight/hot winds) and mildew. [I sent] locusts to eat [the leaves on] your fig trees and olive trees, but in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!

10 to send: depart in/on/with you pestilence in/on/with way: conduct Egypt to kill in/on/with sword youth your with captivity horse your and to ascend: rise stench camp your and in/on/with face: nose your and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

I caused you to experience (plagues/severe sicknesses) like the plagues [that I sent to the people] of Egypt. I caused [many of] your young men to die in battles. I allowed [your enemies] to capture your horses. [Many of your soldiers were killed, ] and I caused your camps to be filled with the smell/stink of their [decaying] corpses. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!

11 to overturn in/on/with you like/as overthrow God [obj] Sodom and [obj] Gomorrah and to be like/as firebrand to rescue (from fire *L(abh)*) and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

I got rid of many of you, like I got rid of [the people in] Sodom and Gomorrah. [Those of] you who [did not die] were like [SIM] a burning stick that was snatched from a fire [so that it would not burn completely]. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it!

12 to/for so thus to make: do to/for you Israel consequence for this to make: do to/for you to establish: prepare to/for to encounter: meet God your Israel

So [now], you [people of] Israel, I am going to punish you. Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, [when I judge you]!

13 for behold to form: formed mountain: mount and to create spirit: breath and to tell to/for man what? thought his to make dawn darkness and to tread upon high place land: country/planet LORD God Hosts name his

I created the mountains, and [I] created winds. I reveal to humans what I am thinking. I [sometimes] cause the daylight to become dark [like the night]. I [rule over everything]; I [even] walk on the highest mountains on the earth! I am the Commander of the armies of angels!”