Amos 5

1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:

to hear: hear [obj] [the] word [the] this which I to lift: loud upon you dirge house: household Israel

2 “The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”

to fall: fall not to add: again to arise: rise virgin Israel to leave upon land: soil her nothing to arise: raise her

3 For the Lord Yahweh says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

for thus to say Lord YHWH/God [the] city [the] to come out: come thousand to remain hundred and [the] to come out: come hundred to remain ten to/for house: household Israel

4 For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

for thus to say LORD to/for house: household Israel to seek me and to live

5 but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

and not to seek Bethel Bethel and [the] Gilgal not to come (in): come and Beersheba Beersheba not to pass for [the] Gilgal to reveal: remove to reveal: remove and Bethel Bethel to be to/for evil: trouble

6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

to seek [obj] LORD and to live lest to rush like/as fire house: household Joseph and to eat and nothing to quench to/for Bethel Bethel

7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

[the] to overturn to/for wormwood justice and righteousness to/for land: country/planet to rest

8 Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

to make Pleiades and Orion and to overturn to/for morning shadow and day night to darken [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

9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

[the] be cheerful violence upon strong and violence upon fortification to come (in): come

10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

to hate in/on/with gate to rebuke and to speak: speak unblemished: blameless to abhor

11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

to/for so because to trample you upon poor and tribute grain to take: take from him house: home cutting to build and not to dwell in/on/with them vineyard delight to plant and not to drink [obj] wine their

12 For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

for to know many transgression your and mighty sin your to vex righteous to take: take ransom and needy in/on/with gate to stretch

13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

to/for so [the] be prudent in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to silence: silent for time distress: evil he/she/it

14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

to seek good and not bad: evil because to live and to be so LORD God Hosts with you like/as as which to say

15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

to hate bad: evil and to love: lover good and to set in/on/with gate justice perhaps be gracious LORD God Hosts remnant Joseph

16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

to/for so thus to say LORD God Hosts Lord in/on/with all street/plaza mourning and in/on/with all outside to say Ah! Ah! and to call: call out farmer to(wards) mourning and mourning to(wards) to know wailing

17 In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.

and in/on/with all vineyard mourning for to pass in/on/with entrails: among your to say LORD

18 “Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

woe! [the] to desire [obj] day LORD to/for what? this to/for you day LORD he/she/it darkness and not light

19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

like/as as which to flee man: anyone from face: before [the] lion and to fall on him [the] bear and to come (in): come [the] house: home and to support hand his upon [the] wall and to bite him [the] serpent

20 Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

not darkness day LORD and not light and gloom and not brightness to/for him

21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

to hate to reject feast your and not to smell in/on/with assembly your

22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

that if: except if: except to ascend: offer up to/for me burnt offering and offering your not to accept and peace offering fatling your not to look

23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

to turn aside: remove from upon me crowd song your and melody harp your not to hear: hear

24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

and to roll like/as water justice and righteousness like/as torrent: river strong

25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

sacrifice and offering to approach: bring to/for me in/on/with wilderness forty year house: household Israel

26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

and to lift: raise [obj] Sikkuth king your and [obj] Kiyyun image your star God your which to make to/for you

27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.

and to reveal: remove [obj] you from further to/for Damascus to say LORD God Hosts name his