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 beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake. Break them in pieces on the head of all of them. I will kill the last of them with the sword. Not one of them will flee away. Not one of them will escape.

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 into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will 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 in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will 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 I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on 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, GOD of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like 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

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth—the LORD 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 you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says the LORD. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of 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 GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says the LORD.

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 grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

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

All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet 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 tent of David who is fallen and close up its breaches, and I will 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 who are called by my name,” says the LORD who does 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,” says the LORD, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.

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 my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. 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 on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,” says the LORD your God.