Amos 5

1 to hear: hear [obj] [the] word [the] this which I to lift: loud upon you dirge house: household Israel

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

2 to fall: fall not to add: again to arise: rise virgin Israel to leave upon land: soil her nothing to arise: raise 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 to say Lord YHWH/God [the] city [the] to come out: come thousand to remain hundred and [the] to come out: come hundred to remain ten to/for house: household 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 to say LORD to/for house: household Israel to seek me and to live

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

5 and not to seek Bethel Bethel and [the] Gilgal not to come (in): come and Beersheba Beersheba not to pass for [the] Gilgal to reveal: remove to reveal: remove and Bethel Bethel to be to/for evil: 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 to seek [obj] LORD and to live lest to rush like/as fire house: household Joseph and to eat and nothing to quench to/for Bethel Bethel

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 [the] to overturn to/for wormwood justice and righteousness to/for land: country/planet to rest

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

8 to make Pleiades and Orion and to overturn to/for morning shadow and day night to darken [the] to call: call to to/for water [the] sea and to pour: pour them upon face: surface [the] land: country/planet LORD 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] be cheerful violence upon strong and violence upon fortification to come (in): come

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

10 to hate in/on/with gate to rebuke and to speak: speak unblemished: blameless to abhor

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

11 to/for so because to trample you upon poor and tribute grain to take: take from him house: home cutting to build and not to dwell in/on/with them vineyard delight to plant and not to drink [obj] 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 to know many transgression your and mighty sin your to vex righteous to take: take ransom and needy in/on/with gate to stretch

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 to/for so [the] be prudent in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to silence: silent for time distress: evil he/she/it

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

14 to seek good and not bad: evil because to live and to be so LORD God Hosts with you like/as as which to say

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 to hate bad: evil and to love: lover good and to set in/on/with gate justice perhaps be gracious LORD God Hosts remnant 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 to/for so thus to say LORD God Hosts Lord in/on/with all street/plaza mourning and in/on/with all outside to say Ah! Ah! and to call: call out farmer to(wards) mourning and mourning to(wards) to know wailing

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 in/on/with all vineyard mourning for to pass in/on/with entrails: among your to say LORD

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

18 woe! [the] to desire [obj] day LORD to/for what? this to/for you day LORD he/she/it 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 like/as as which to flee man: anyone from face: before [the] lion and to fall on him [the] bear and to come (in): come [the] house: home and to support hand his upon [the] wall and to bite him [the] serpent

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 darkness day LORD and not light and gloom and not brightness to/for him

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

21 to hate to reject feast your and not to smell in/on/with assembly your

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

22 that if: except if: except to ascend: offer up to/for me burnt offering and offering your not to accept and peace offering fatling your not to look

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 to turn aside: remove from upon me crowd song your and melody harp your not to hear: hear

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

24 and to roll like/as water justice and righteousness like/as torrent: river strong

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

25 sacrifice and offering to approach: bring to/for me in/on/with wilderness forty year house: household Israel

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

26 and to lift: raise [obj] Sikkuth king your and [obj] Kiyyun image your star God your which to make to/for you

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

27 and to reveal: remove [obj] you from further to/for Damascus to say LORD God Hosts name his

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