Amos 4

1 Listen to this message, you well-fed cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who order your husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

to hear: hear [the] word [the] this heifer [the] Bashan which in/on/with mountain: mount Samaria [the] to oppress poor [the] to crush needy [the] to say to/for lord their to come (in): bring [emph?] and to drink

2 The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: Watch out! For the time is coming when they will drag you away with hooks, each one of you will be like a fish on a hook.

to swear Lord YHWH/God in/on/with holiness his for behold day to come (in): come upon you and to lift: raise [obj] you in/on/with hook and end your in/on/with thorn fishhook

3 You will leave through breaches in the city walls, thrown out in the direction of Mount Hermon.

and breach to come out: come woman: another before her and to throw [the] Harmon [to] utterance LORD

4 Why don't you go to Bethel and sin? Go to Gilgal and add to your sins even more? Offer your sacrifices in the morning, bring your tithes after three days.

to come (in): come Bethel Bethel and to transgress [the] Gilgal to multiply to/for to transgress and to come (in): bring to/for morning sacrifice your to/for three day tithe your

5 Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast, and announce what you're giving as freewill offerings so everyone will know. This is what you love to do! declares the Lord God.

and to offer: offer from leaven thanksgiving and to call: call out voluntariness to hear: proclaim for so to love: lover son: descendant/people Israel utterance Lord YHWH/God

6 It was I who made sure you had nothing to eat in all your cities, and a lack of food wherever you lived, but still you wouldn't return to me, says the Lord.

and also I to give: give to/for you bluntness tooth in/on/with all city your and lack food: bread in/on/with all place your and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

7 It was I who kept the rain from falling when there was still three months before harvest. One city would have rain, while another would not. One field would have rain, another would dry up from lack of rain.

and also I to withhold from you [obj] [the] rain in/on/with still three month to/for harvest and to rain upon city one and upon city one not to rain portion one to rain and portion which not to rain upon her to wither

8 People wandered from town to town looking for water, yet were still thirsty. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

and to shake two three city to(wards) city one to/for to drink water and not to satisfy and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

9 I struck your many farms and vineyards with blight and mildew; locusts devoured your fig trees and olive trees. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

to smite [obj] you in/on/with blight and in/on/with mildew to multiply garden your and vineyard your and fig your and olive your to eat [the] locust and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

10 I sent a plague on you like I did in Egypt. I killed your young men in battle; I took away your horses; I made you smell the stench of dead bodies in your camps. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

to send: depart in/on/with you pestilence in/on/with way: conduct Egypt to kill in/on/with sword youth your with captivity horse your and to ascend: rise stench camp your and in/on/with face: nose your and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

11 Some of you I destroyed as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick pulled out of a fire. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.

to overturn in/on/with you like/as overthrow God [obj] Sodom and [obj] Gomorrah and to be like/as firebrand to rescue from fire and not to return: return till me utterance LORD

12 Therefore, this is what I am going to do to you, Israel. Because I am going to do this, Israel, prepare to meet your God!

to/for so thus to make: do to/for you Israel consequence for this to make: do to/for you to establish: prepare to/for to encounter: meet God your Israel

13 Watch! The One who made the mountains, who created the winds, who reveals his thoughts to humankind, who turns the sunlight into darkness, who walks on the high places of the earth—the Lord God of power is his name!

for behold to form: formed mountain: mount and to create spirit: breath and to tell to/for man what? thought his to make dawn darkness and to tread upon high place land: country/planet LORD God Hosts name his