Amos 5

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

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over 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 has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is 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

For thus says the LORD: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

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

For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will 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

but do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall 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 you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

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

You who turn justice 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 who made Kimah and Kesil, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name,

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

who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

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

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

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 you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

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 many your offenses, and how great are your sins—you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

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 a prudent person keeps silent in such a 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 you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you 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, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that 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 thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas. Alas.' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

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

In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says the LORD.

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 desire the day of the LORD. Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is 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 he 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

Won't the day of the LORD 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 can't stand 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

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

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 rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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

"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, 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 took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship them.

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

Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.