Amos 5
1 to hear: hear [obj] [the] word [the] this which I to lift: loud upon you dirge house: household Israel
Hear these words, which I utter concerning you; This lamentation, 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
She is fallen, she shall rise no more, The virgin of Israel! She is prostrate on her own ground, 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 which sent out a thousand shall have a hundred left, And that which sent out a 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 saith Jehovah to 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
Seek not Bethel, And go not to Gilgal, And pass not over to Beersheba! For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity! And Bethel shall come to naught.
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 rush like a fire on the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be none to quench it in the house of Israel.
7 [the] to overturn to/for wormwood justice and righteousness to/for land: country/planet to rest
Ye who turn justice into wormwood, And cast righteousness down 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
Seek him, that made the Pleiades and Orion; That changeth death-like darkness into morning, And darkeneth day into night; That calleth up 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
Who sendeth sudden destruction upon the strong, And bringeth desolation upon the fortress.
10 to hate in/on/with gate to rebuke and to speak: speak unblemished: blameless to abhor
They hate him that pleadeth in the gate, And 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
Since, then, ye trample upon the poor, And take from him presents of wheat, Though ye build houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; Though ye plant pleasant vineyards, ye 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 that your sins are many, And your transgressions manifold, Ye who afflict the righteous, and take a bribe, And oppress the poor 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 wise man shall be silent at that time, For it shall be 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 ye good, and not evil, that ye may live; Then shall Jehovah, the God of hosts, be with you, as ye boast.
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 ye evil, and love good, And establish justice in the gate; It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will have pity upon 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
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the streets shall there be wailing, And in all the highways shall they cry, Alas! alas! They shall call the husbandmen to mourning, And those who are skilful in 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 sounds of woe, 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 them that ask for the day of Jehovah! What is the day of Jehovah to 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 a house and leaned his hand on a wall, And a serpent bit him;
20 not darkness day LORD and not light and gloom and not brightness to/for him
So shall the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light, Even thick darkness, 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; I have no delight 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
When ye offer me burnt-offerings and flour-offerings, I will not accept them; And upon the thank-offerings of your fatlings I will not look.
23 to turn aside: remove from upon me crowd song your and melody harp your not to hear: hear
Take ye away from me the noise of your songs, And the music of your harps let me not hear!
24 and to roll like/as water justice and righteousness like/as torrent: river strong
Let justice flow forth as waters, And righteousness as a mighty stream!
25 sacrifice and offering to approach: bring to/for me in/on/with wilderness forty year house: household Israel
Did ye offer me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness, for 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
But ye bore the tabernacle of your king, And the shrine of your images, The star of your god, which ye made for yourselves.
27 and to reveal: remove [obj] you from further to/for Damascus to say LORD God Hosts name his
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, Saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts!
