Amos 9

1 to see: see [obj] Lord to stand upon [the] altar and to say to smite [the] capital and to shake [the] threshold and to cut off them in/on/with head all their and end their in/on/with sword to kill not to flee to/for them to flee and not to escape to/for them survivor

I saw the Lord standing by the altar; and he said: Smite the capital, so that the thresholds shall tremble! Break them in pieces upon the heads of all of them! And their residue will I slay with the sword. He that fleeth of them shall not flee from danger, And he that escapeth of them shall not escape into safety.

2 if to dig in/on/with hell: Sheol from there hand: power my to take: take them and if to ascend: rise [the] heaven from there to go down them (Sheol h7585)

Though they dig down to the under-world, Thence shall my hand take them; Though they climb up to heaven, Thence will I bring them down. (Sheol h7585)

3 and if to hide in/on/with head: top [the] Carmel from there to search and to take: take them and if to hide from before eye: seeing my in/on/with floor [the] sea from there to command [obj] [the] serpent and to bite them

Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, There will I search for them, and take them away; Though they hide themselves from mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, There will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

4 and if to go: went in/on/with captivity to/for face: before enemy their from there to command [obj] [the] sword and to kill them and to set: make eye my upon them to/for distress: evil and not to/for welfare

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, There will I command the sword, and it shall slay them; I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

5 and Lord YHWH/God [the] Hosts [the] to touch in/on/with land: country/planet and to melt and to mourn all to dwell in/on/with her and to ascend: rise like/as Nile all her and to sink like/as Nile (Egypt *L(abh)*)

For the Lord Jehovah of hosts Is he, that toucheth the earth, and it shall melt, And all that dwell therein shall mourn; All of it shall rise in waves like a river, And shall be overflowed, as by the river of Egypt;

6 [the] to build in/on/with heaven (step his *Q(K)*) and band his upon land: country/planet to found her [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

He that buildeth his upper rooms in the heavens, And foundeth his arch upon the earth, —That calleth the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth, —Jehovah is his name.

7 not like/as son: descendant/people Ethiopian you(m. p.) to/for me son: descendant/people Israel utterance LORD not [obj] Israel to ascend: establish from land: country/planet Egypt and Philistine from Caphtor and Syria from Kir

Are ye not as the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Did I not bring Israel from the land of Egypt, And the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

8 behold eye Lord YHWH/God in/on/with kingdom [the] sinner and to destroy [obj] her from upon face: surface [the] land: soil end for not to destroy to destroy [obj] house: household Jacob utterance LORD

Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet will I not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.

9 for behold I to command and to shake in/on/with all [the] nation [obj] house: household Israel like/as as which to shake in/on/with sieve and not to fall: fall pebble land: country/planet

For, behold, I will command, And I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, As one sifteth corn with a sieve, And not a grain shall fall upon the ground.

10 in/on/with sword to die all sinner people my [the] to say not to approach: approach and to meet about/through/for us [the] distress: harm

But all the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, Who say, Evil shall not approach, nor fall upon us.

11 in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to arise: establish [obj] booth David [the] to fall: fall and to wall up/off [obj] breach their and ruins his to arise: establish and to build her like/as day forever: antiquity

In that day I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David, And I will close up the breaches thereof, And raise up its ruins, And I will build it, as in the days of old.

12 because to possess: possess [obj] remnant Edom and all [the] nation which to call: call by name my upon them utterance LORD to make: do this

That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations, which shall be called by my name. Thus saith Jehovah, who doeth this.

13 behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to approach: approach to plow/plot in/on/with to reap and to tread grape in/on/with to draw [the] seed and to drip/prophesy [the] mountain: mount sweet and all [the] hill to melt

Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That the plougher shall draw near to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the sower of the seed; And the mountains shall drop new wine, And all the hills shall melt.

14 and to return: rescue [obj] captivity people my Israel and to build city be desolate: destroyed and to dwell and to plant vineyard and to drink [obj] wine their and to make garden and to eat [obj] fruit their

I will bring back the captives of my people Israel, And they shall build the desolate cities, and shall inhabit them; And they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

15 and to plant them upon land: soil their and not to uproot still from upon land: soil their which to give: give to/for them to say LORD God your

I will plant them in their land, And they shall no more be rooted up from the land which I have given them, Saith Jehovah, thy God.