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

Sorrow awaits who are carefree in Zion, overconfident on the mountain of Samaria! The elite of this, the best of nations, on whom the people of Israel rest their hopes!

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

You say to the people: Cross over to Calneh and see, go from there to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines: Are they 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 push away all thoughts of the evil day, yet have instituted a rule 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

They lie on ivory couches, sprawl on their divans, eat choice lambs from the flock, and fattened 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

They idly sing to the sound of the lyre, thinking themselves songwriters like David,

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)*)

they drink bowlfuls of wine, and anoint themselves with the finest of oil. But they do not 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 now they must go into exile at the head of the captives, and hushed will be the revelry of the sprawlers.

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, the Lord, the God of hosts, has sworn by himself: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city and all that is in it to their enemies.

9 and to be if to remain ten human in/on/with house: home one and to die

If ten people remain in one house, then they 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

When the uncle and another member of the family of a dead man come to carry the body out of the house for burial, they will call to someone in a corner of the house, ‘Any more there?’ and he will answer, ‘No’, and then he will add, ‘Be quiet!’ – for the name of the Lord must not be mentioned.

11 for behold LORD to command and to smite [the] house: home [the] great: large fragment and [the] house: home [the] small breach

Look! The Lord is giving the command! He will smash the large house to bits, the small house into fragments.

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 crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you turn justice into poison weed, and the fruit of righteousness into bitter 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 are so proud of capturing Lo-debar, who say, ‘Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?’

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

I am now raising up against you, Israel, a nation, says the Lord, the God of hosts. They will oppress you, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.