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, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.

2 to fall: fall not to add: again to arise: rise virgin Israel to leave upon land: soil her nothing to arise: raise her

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none 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

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, for the house of Israel.

4 for thus to say LORD to/for house: household Israel to seek me and to live

For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall 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

And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

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 Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and there be none to quench [it] in Bethel.

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

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

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

[seek him] that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.

9 [the] be cheerful violence upon strong and violence upon fortification to come (in): come

He causeth destruction to break forth suddenly upon the strong, and bringeth destruction upon the fortress.

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

They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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

Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them.

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 how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside [the right of] the needy 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 shall keep silence in this time; for it is an evil time.

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, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.

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, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto 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 thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

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

And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.

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 unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall 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

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

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

Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and 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, and I will not smell [a sweet odour] in 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

For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept [them]; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.

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 thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;

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

but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

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

Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, 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

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;

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

and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.