OET-RV GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
OET-RV AMOS Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9
OET-RV AMO 5 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27
This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
5:18 Warning about coming judgement
18 You who desire the day of Yahweh won’t end well.
Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
It’ll be darkness and not light,
19 like when a person flees from a lion and then they run into a bear,
≈ or when a person goes in a house and puts a hand on the wall and gets bitten by a snake.
20 Won’t Yahweh’s day consist of darkness and not light?
≈ Gloom and no brightness?
21 “I hate, I despise your festivals,
≈ I take no delight in your formal gatherings.[ref]
22 Even though you all offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I won’t accept them,
≈ nor will I take any notice of your fellowship offerings of fattened animals.
23 Take the noise of your songs away from me.
≈ I won’t listen to the sound of your harps.
24 Instead, let justice flow like water,
≈ and righteousness like a constantly flowing stream.
25 You descendants of Yisrael (Israel),
did you bring me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years?[ref]
26 You’ve all lifted up the images of Sikut, your king,
and Kiyun, your star god that you made for yourselves. 27 Therefore I will exile you far beyond Damesek (Damascus),”