Amos 5
1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
שִׁמְעוּ אֶת־הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי נֹשֵׂא עֲלֵיכֶם קִינָה בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ (3266)
See also: Ezekiel 19:1, Jeremiah 7:29, Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:17, 2 Kings 18:11, Jeremiah 9:20, Ezekiel 19:14, Ezekiel 26:17, Ezekiel 27:2, Ezekiel 27:27-32, Ezekiel 28:12, Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16, Joel 1:2, Amos 3:1, Amos 4:1, Amos 5:16, Micah 2:4, Zephaniah 2:5
2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
נָפְלָה לֹא־תֹוסִיף קוּם בְּתוּלַת יִשְׂרָאֵל נִטְּשָׁה עַל־אַדְמָתָהּ אֵין מְקִימָהּ׃ (3447)
See also: Jeremiah 31:4, Proverbs 24:16, Jeremiah 8:4, Jeremiah 14:17, Hosea 5:5, Hosea 14:1, 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 19:21, 2 Kings 21:14, Isaiah 3:8, Isaiah 9:14, Isaiah 14:21, Isaiah 24:20, Isaiah 37:22, Isaiah 43:17, Isaiah 51:17-18, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 4:20, Jeremiah 18:13
3For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
כִּי כֹה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה הָעִיר הַיֹּצֵאת אֶלֶף תַּשְׁאִיר מֵאָה וְהַיֹּוצֵאת מֵאָה תַּשְׁאִיר עֲשָׂרָה לְבֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ (5279)
See also: Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 10:22, Ezekiel 12:16, Amos 6:9, Romans 9:27, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 28:62, Isaiah 1:9
4For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
כִּי כֹה אָמַר יְהוָה לְבֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל דִּרְשׁוּנִי וִחְיוּ׃ (1905)
See also: Matthew 7:7, Luke 11:9, Jeremiah 29:13, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Zephaniah 2:3, Jeremiah 29:12-13, Isaiah 45:19, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 105:4, Isaiah 55:3, Psalms 105:3-4, Isaiah 55:6-7, Matthew 7:8, Hosea 10:12, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Isaiah 31:1, Lamentations 3:25-26, Deuteronomy 30:1-8, 2 Chronicles 20:3, 2 Chronicles 34:3
5But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
וְאַל־תִּדְרְשׁוּ בֵּית־אֵל וְהַגִּלְגָּל לֹא תָבֹאוּ וּבְאֵר שֶׁבַע לֹא תַעֲבֹרוּ כִּי הַגִּלְגָּל גָּלֹה יִגְלֶה וּבֵית־אֵל יִהְיֶה לְאָוֶן׃ (3950)
See also: Hosea 4:15, Amos 4:4, Amos 8:14, Genesis 21:33, Hosea 9:15, 2 Kings 2:23, Amos 3:14, Amos 6:7, Amos 7:17, 1 Corinthians 1:28, 1 Corinthians 2:6, Revelation 18:17, Leviticus 26:30-32, Deuteronomy 28:41, Joshua 4:19, 1 Samuel 7:16, 1 Samuel 8:2, 1 Samuel 11:14, Job 8:22, Psalms 33:10
6Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
דִּרְשׁוּ אֶת־יְהוָה וִחְיוּ פֶּן־יִצְלַח כָּאֵשׁ בֵּית יֹוסֵף וְאָכְלָה וְאֵין־מְכַבֶּה לְבֵית־אֵל׃ (2793)
See also: Isaiah 55:6, 1 Chronicles 16:11, Isaiah 45:7, Hosea 10:12, Isaiah 51:1, Jeremiah 4:4, Amos 5:4, Ezekiel 20:47-48, Ezekiel 33:11, Genesis 48:8-20, Amos 5:14, Zechariah 10:6, Mark 9:43-48, Exodus 22:6, Deuteronomy 4:24, Joshua 18:5, Judges 1:22-23, 2 Samuel 19:20, 1 Kings 11:28, 2 Kings 18:11
7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
הַהֹפְכִים לְלַעֲנָה מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה לָאָרֶץ הִנִּיחוּ׃ (1379)
See also: Isaiah 5:20, Amos 5:24, Amos 6:12, Hosea 10:4, Proverbs 17:15, Isaiah 59:14, Revelation 8:11, Deuteronomy 29:18, Ezekiel 3:20, Amos 5:11-12, Zephaniah 1:6, John 8:15, Deuteronomy 24:17, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 125:5, Psalms 147:8, Proverbs 16:10, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 10:1
8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
עֹשֵׂה כִימָה וּכְסִיל וְהֹפֵךְ לַבֹּקֶר צַלְמָוֶת וְיֹום לַיְלָה הֶחְשִׁיךְ הַקֹּורֵא לְמֵי־הַיָּם וַיִּשְׁפְּכֵם עַל־פְּנֵי הָאָרֶץ יְהוָה שְׁמֹו׃ (3876)
See also: Amos 4:13, Genesis 1:14, Isaiah 9:2, Job 9:9, Matthew 4:16, Amos 9:6, Job 38:31, Hosea 10:12, Psalms 104:20, Amos 8:9, Job 12:22, Exodus 10:21-23, Job 38:12-13, Psalms 104:6-9, Psalms 105:28, Psalms 107:10-14, Jeremiah 16:21, Nahum 1:4, Genesis 7:11-20, Exodus 14:24-28
9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
הַמַּבְלִיג שֹׁד עַל־עָז וְשֹׁד עַל־מִבְצָר יָבֹוא׃ (1332)
See also: 2 Chronicles 14:11, Psalms 8:2, 2 Kings 13:17, 2 Kings 13:25, Jeremiah 37:10, Micah 5:11, Hebrews 11:34
10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
שָׂנְאוּ בַשַּׁעַר מֹוכִיחַ וְדֹבֵר תָּמִים יְתָעֵבוּ׃ (2203)
See also: Galatians 4:16, 1 Kings 22:8, Proverbs 15:12, Isaiah 29:21, Jeremiah 38:7, Amos 5:12, John 8:6, John 8:45-47, 2 Chronicles 18:7, Jeremiah 17:16-17, 1 Kings 18:17, 1 Kings 21:20, 2 Chronicles 24:20-22, 2 Chronicles 25:16, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Proverbs 9:7-8, Amos 7:10-17, John 3:20, John 7:7, John 15:19
11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
לָכֵן יַעַן בֹּושַׁסְכֶם עַל־דָּל וּמַשְׂאַת־בַּר תִּקְחוּ מִמֶּנּוּ בָּתֵּי גָזִית בְּנִיתֶם וְלֹא־תֵשְׁבוּ בָם כַּרְמֵי־חֶמֶד נְטַעְתֶּם וְלֹא תִשְׁתּוּ אֶת־יֵינָם׃ (7057)
See also: Proverbs 31:9, Deuteronomy 28:30, Micah 6:15, Zephaniah 1:13, Amos 8:4, Isaiah 59:14, Amos 4:1, James 2:6, Deuteronomy 8:12, Amos 6:12, Haggai 1:6, Revelation 11:8-10, Leviticus 25:14, Proverbs 22:7, Isaiah 5:9, Isaiah 16:10, Jeremiah 8:10, Ezekiel 16:49, Ezekiel 26:12, Daniel 10:3
12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
כִּי יָדַעְתִּי רַבִּים פִּשְׁעֵיכֶם וַעֲצֻמִים חַטֹּאתֵיכֶם צֹרְרֵי צַדִּיק לֹקְחֵי כֹפֶר וְאֶבְיֹונִים בַּשַּׁעַר הִטּוּ׃ (3909)
See also: Amos 2:6-7, Amos 2:7, Amos 5:10, Exodus 23:8, Proverbs 17:15, Isaiah 1:23, 1 Samuel 8:3, Psalms 26:9-10, Proverbs 17:8, Micah 7:3, Habakkuk 1:4, Malachi 3:5, Acts 7:52, James 5:4, Genesis 34:20, Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 31:21, Ruth 4:1, 2 Kings 17:7-17, Job 5:4
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
לָכֵן הַמַּשְׂכִּיל בָּעֵת הַהִיא יִדֹּם כִּי עֵת רָעָה הִיא׃ (1843)
See also: Ephesians 5:16, Ecclesiastes 3:7, Psalms 39:1, Proverbs 29:11, Psalms 37:19, Micah 2:3, Psalms 38:14, John 7:10, Proverbs 14:15, Hosea 4:4, Amos 6:10, John 8:6, Ephesians 5:15-16, 2 Timothy 3:1, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Isaiah 36:21, Isaiah 37:3, Micah 7:5-7, Habakkuk 3:16, Zephaniah 2:2-3
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
דִּרְשׁוּ־טֹוב וְאַל־רָע לְמַעַן תִּחְיוּ וִיהִי־כֵן יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי־צְבָאֹות אִתְּכֶם כַּאֲשֶׁר אֲמַרְתֶּם׃ (3783)
See also: Zephaniah 2:3, Matthew 7:12, Amos 5:24, 2 Chronicles 20:17, Joshua 1:9, Matthew 6:33, Micah 3:11, Micah 6:8, Philippians 4:8-9, 2 Timothy 4:22, Philippians 1:10, Genesis 39:2-3, 1 Chronicles 28:20, Psalms 34:12-16, Isaiah 48:1-2, Romans 2:7-9, Jeremiah 7:3-4, Hosea 11:7, Amos 3:3, Psalms 46:11
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
שִׂנְאוּ־רָע וְאֶהֱבוּ טֹוב וְהַצִּיגוּ בַשַּׁעַר מִשְׁפָּט אוּלַי יֶחֱנַן יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי־צְבָאֹות שְׁאֵרִית יֹוסֵף׃ (3588)
See also: Hosea 10:12, Psalms 97:10, Romans 12:9, Proverbs 8:13, Matthew 12:33, 3 John 1:11, Isaiah 1:16, Joel 2:14, Romans 7:15, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22, Hebrews 1:9, 2 Samuel 8:15, Isaiah 7:15, Micah 5:7-8, Romans 8:7, Psalms 119:104, Jonah 1:6, Micah 5:3, Exodus 32:30, 1 Kings 20:31
16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
לָכֵן כֹּה־אָמַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי צְבָאֹות אֲדֹנָי בְּכָל־רְחֹבֹות מִסְפֵּד וּבְכָל־חוּצֹות יֹאמְרוּ הֹו־הֹו וְקָרְאוּ אִכָּר אֶל־אֵבֶל וּמִסְפֵּד אֶל־יֹודְעֵי נֶהִי׃ (3685)
See also: Jeremiah 9:17, Hosea 4:3, Joel 1:11, Revelation 18:10, Jeremiah 9:10, Ezekiel 30:3, Joel 1:15, Amos 8:3, Job 3:8, Isaiah 15:2-5, Isaiah 15:8, Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 24:11, Jeremiah 4:31, Jeremiah 30:5, Jeremiah 50:16, Ezekiel 6:11, Ezekiel 27:2, Joel 1:8, Joel 1:14
17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
וּבְכָל־כְּרָמִים מִסְפֵּד כִּי־אֶעֱבֹר בְּקִרְבְּךָ אָמַר יְהוָה׃ (1446)
See also: Exodus 12:12, Isaiah 16:10, Jeremiah 48:33, Exodus 11:4, Exodus 11:6, Exodus 12:23, Exodus 12:30, Isaiah 32:10-12, Hosea 9:1-2, Joel 3:17, Nahum 1:12, Nahum 1:15, Zechariah 9:8, Micah 2:4
18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
הֹוי הַמִּתְאַוִּים אֶת־יֹום יְהוָה לָמָּה־זֶּה לָכֶם יֹום יְהוָה הוּא־חֹשֶׁךְ וְלֹא־אֹור׃ (1849)
See also: Joel 1:15, Joel 2:1-2, Joel 2:31, Jeremiah 30:7, Joel 2:2, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 4:1, Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 9:19, Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 24:11-12, Zephaniah 1:14-15, Malachi 3:1-2, Joel 2:10, Zephaniah 1:7, Luke 23:44, Job 3:4, Isaiah 22:5, Jeremiah 5:6
19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
כַּאֲשֶׁר יָנוּס אִישׁ מִפְּנֵי הָאֲרִי וּפְגָעֹו הַדֹּב וּבָא הַבַּיִת וְסָמַךְ יָדֹו עַל־הַקִּיר וּנְשָׁכֹו הַנָּחָשׁ׃ (3262)
See also: Job 20:24, Isaiah 24:17-18, Ecclesiastes 10:8, Exodus 14:25, Jeremiah 15:2-3, Genesis 32:6, 1 Samuel 5:12, Isaiah 24:18, Jeremiah 48:43-44, Jeremiah 48:44, Acts 28:4, Revelation 13:2, Exodus 4:3, Joshua 10:18, Judges 4:17, 1 Samuel 5:9, 2 Samuel 13:34, 1 Kings 13:24, 1 Kings 19:17, 1 Kings 20:29-30
20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
הֲלֹא־חֹשֶׁךְ יֹום יְהוָה וְלֹא־אֹור וְאָפֵל וְלֹא־נֹגַהּ לֹו׃ (938)
See also: Matthew 24:29, Isaiah 13:10, Ezekiel 34:12, Zephaniah 1:15, Joel 2:11, Job 10:21-22, Job 15:23, Mark 13:24, Job 3:4-6, Nahum 1:8, Matthew 22:13, Jude 1:13, Revelation 16:10
21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
שָׂנֵאתִי מָאַסְתִּי חַגֵּיכֶם וְלֹא אָרִיחַ בְּעַצְּרֹתֵיכֶם׃ (2441)
See also: 1 Samuel 15:22, Hosea 6:6, Isaiah 1:11, Psalms 51:17, Proverbs 28:9, Leviticus 26:31, Isaiah 1:14, Isaiah 66:3, Hosea 2:11, Jeremiah 6:20, Hebrews 10:5, Psalms 51:16, Proverbs 15:8, Hosea 8:13, Mark 12:33, Hebrews 10:4, Genesis 8:21, Proverbs 21:27, Malachi 1:10, Matthew 23:13
22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
כִּי אִם־תַּעֲלוּ־לִי עֹלֹות וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶם לֹא אֶרְצֶה וְשֶׁלֶם מְרִיאֵיכֶם לֹא אַבִּיט׃ (2774)
See also: Psalms 40:6, Micah 6:6-7, Amos 4:4-5, Isaiah 66:3, Jeremiah 14:10, Hosea 8:13, Leviticus 3:1, Leviticus 7:12-15, Hebrews 8:9, Leviticus 7:18, Numbers 7:27, Job 35:13, Psalms 50:8-14, Psalms 50:23, Psalms 107:21-22, Psalms 116:17, Hosea 9:4, Micah 6:7, Malachi 2:12
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
הָסֵר מֵעָלַי הֲמֹון שִׁרֶיךָ וְזִמְרַת נְבָלֶיךָ לֹא אֶשְׁמָע׃ (2253)
24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
וְיִגַּל כַּמַּיִם מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה כְּנַחַל אֵיתָן׃ (1362)
See also: Micah 6:8, Jeremiah 22:3, Proverbs 21:3, Hosea 6:6, Mark 12:32-34, Amos 5:14-15, Job 29:12-17, Amos 5:7, Isaiah 48:18, Hosea 12:6, Amos 5:15, Zechariah 7:9, Zechariah 8:16, Acts 24:25, 2 Samuel 8:15, Ezekiel 18:9, Zechariah 1:4
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
הַזְּבָחִים וּמִנְחָה הִגַּשְׁתֶּם־לִי בַמִּדְבָּר אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ (2848)
See also: Acts 7:42, Isaiah 43:23, Deuteronomy 4:19, Nehemiah 9:18, Ezekiel 20:8, Leviticus 17:7, Joshua 24:14, Nehemiah 9:21, Numbers 28:6, Deuteronomy 32:17-19, Ezekiel 20:16, Ezekiel 20:24, Hosea 9:9-10, Acts 13:18, Deuteronomy 31:21, 2 Kings 18:11, Isaiah 17:3, Zechariah 7:5, Deuteronomy 12:8
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
וּנְשָׂאתֶם אֵת סִכּוּת מַלְכְּכֶם וְאֵת כִּיּוּן צַלְמֵיכֶם כֹּוכַב אֱלֹהֵיכֶם אֲשֶׁר עֲשִׂיתֶם לָכֶם׃ (4122)
See also: Acts 7:43, Leviticus 20:2-5, 2 Kings 23:12-13, 1 Kings 11:33, Zephaniah 1:5, Leviticus 18:21
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
וְהִגְלֵיתִי אֶתְכֶם מֵהָלְאָה לְדַמָּשֶׂק אָמַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי־צְבָאֹות שְׁמֹו׃ (2638)
See also: 2 Kings 17:6, Acts 7:43, 2 Kings 17:23, Jeremiah 38:17, Amos 4:13, Deuteronomy 28:32, 1 Kings 14:15, 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 25:21, Isaiah 10:13, Jeremiah 15:14, Hosea 9:15, Hosea 11:5, Amos 3:13, Amos 5:16, Amos 6:7