< 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 secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.
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
Pass ye over [to] Calneh and see, And go thence [to] Hamath the great, And go down [to] Gath of the Philistines, Are [they] better than these kingdoms? Greater [is] their border than your border?
3 [the] to put away to/for day bad: evil and to approach: bring [emph?] seat violence
Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat 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
Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,
5 [the] to divide upon lip: word [the] harp like/as David to devise: design to/for them article/utensil song
Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;
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)*)
Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And [with] chief perfumes anoint [themselves], And have not been pained for the breach 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 remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.
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
Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.
9 and to be if to remain ten human in/on/with house: home one and to die
And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass — that they have died.
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 lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who [is] in the sides of the house, 'Is there yet with thee?' And he said, 'None,' then he said, 'Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'
11 for behold LORD to command and to smite [the] house: home [the] great: large fragment and [the] house: home [the] small breach
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house [with] breaches, And the little house [with] clefts.
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 run on a rock? Doth one plough [it] with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to 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
O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, 'Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?'
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
Surely, lo, I am raising against you a nation, O house of Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts, And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, Unto the stream of the desert.

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