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 that I take up as a lament over you, 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 Israel has fallen; she will rise no more; she is forsaken 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 this is what the Lord Yahweh says: “The city that went out with a thousand will have a hundred left, and the one that went out with a hundred will have ten left belonging to 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 Yahweh 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; nor enter Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel will become 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 Yahweh and live, or he will break out like fire in the house of Joseph. It will devour, and there will 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

Those people turn justice into a bitter thing and throw 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

God made the Pleiades and Orion; he turns darkness into the morning; he makes the day dark with night and calls for the waters of the sea; he pours them out on the surface of the earth. Yahweh is his name!

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

He brings sudden destruction on the strong so that destruction comes on the fortresses.

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

They hate anyone who corrects them in the city gate, and they abhor anyone who speaks the truth.

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

Because you trample down the poor and take portions of wheat from him— although you have built houses of worked stone, you will not live in them. You have delightful vineyards, but you will 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 are your offenses and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, take bribes, and turn aside the needy in the city 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 any prudent person is silent at 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, so that you may live. So Yahweh, the God of hosts, will really be with you, as you say he is.

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, establish justice in the city gate. Perhaps Yahweh, 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 Yahweh says, the God of hosts, the Lord, “Wailing will be in all the squares, and they will say in all the streets, 'Woe! Woe!' They will call the farmers to mourning 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

In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says Yahweh.

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 Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? 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

as when a man flees from a lion and a bear meets him, or he goes in a house and puts his hand on the wall and a snake bites him.

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

Will not the day of Yahweh be darkness and not light? Gloom and no brightness?

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

“I hate, I despise your festivals, I take 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

Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, neither will I look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals.

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

Remove from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the sound of your harps.

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

Instead, let justice flow like water, and righteousness like a constantly 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 in the wilderness for 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 have lifted up the images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your star god, which 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 exile you beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.