Amos 6
1 woe! [the] secure in/on/with Zion and [the] to trust in/on/with mountain: mount Samaria to pierce first: beginning [the] nation and to come (in): come to/for them house: household Israel
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
2 to pass Calneh and to see: see and to go: went from there Hamath the great Hamath the great and to go down Gath Philistine pleasant from [the] kingdom [the] these if: surely yes many border: area their from border: area your
Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
3 [the] to put away to/for day bad: evil and to approach: bring [emph?] seat violence
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
4 [the] to lie down: lay down upon bed tooth: ivory and to overrun upon bed their and to eat ram from flock and calf from midst stall
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
5 [the] to divide upon lip: word [the] harp like/as David to devise: design to/for them article/utensil song
You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
6 [the] to drink in/on/with bowl wine and first: best oil to anoint and not be weak: grieved upon breaking (Joseph *L(abh)*)
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
7 to/for so now to reveal: remove in/on/with head: first to reveal: remove and to turn aside: remove banquet to overrun
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
8 to swear Lord YHWH/God in/on/with soul: myself his utterance LORD God Hosts to loathe I [obj] pride Jacob and citadel: fortress his to hate and to shut city and fullness her
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
9 and to be if to remain ten human in/on/with house: home one and to die
And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
10 and to lift: raise him beloved: male relative his and to burn him to/for to come out: send bone from [the] house: home and to say to/for which in/on/with flank [the] house: home still with you and to say end and to say to silence for not to/for to remember in/on/with name LORD
And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
11 for behold LORD to command and to smite [the] house: home [the] great: large fragment and [the] house: home [the] small breach
For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
12 to run: run [emph?] in/on/with crag horse if: surely yes to plow/plot in/on/with cattle for to overturn to/for poison justice and fruit righteousness to/for wormwood
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
13 [the] glad to/for Lo-debar Lo-debar [the] to say not in/on/with strength our to take: take to/for us Karnaim
you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’
14 for look! I to arise: attack upon you house: household Israel utterance LORD God [the] Hosts nation and to oppress [obj] you from Lebo-(Hamath) Hamath till Brook [the] (Brook of) the Arabah
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
