InterlinearVerse 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
InterlinearVerse Amos C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9
Amos 1 V1 V2 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Damascus · Gilead (GEN 31:21)
OET-LV Thus YHWH he_says on three (the)_transgressions_of Dammeseq and_on four not I_will_revoke_it because threshed_they with_(the)_threshing_sledges_of (the)_iron DOM (the)_Gilˊād.
OET (OET-RV) This is what Yahweh says:
⇔ “Even if Damesek (Damascus) was three or four sins below the threshold,
⇔ I wouldn’t turn away their punishment,
⇔ for the cruel things they did to the people of Gilead.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
(Occurrence 0) Damascus
(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in three transgressions_of Dammeseq and,on four not I,will_revoke_it on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in threshed,they with_(the),threshing_sledges_of of_(the),iron DOM (the),Gilead )
Here “Damascus” represents the people of the city of Damascus. Alternate translation: [the people of Damascus]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes
(Occurrence 0) I will not turn away punishment
(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in three transgressions_of Dammeseq and,on four not I,will_revoke_it on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in threshed,they with_(the),threshing_sledges_of of_(the),iron DOM (the),Gilead )
Yahweh uses two negatives here to emphasize that he would punish them. Alternate translation: [I will certainly punish those people]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
(Occurrence 0) they threshed Gilead with instruments of iron
(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in three transgressions_of Dammeseq and,on four not I,will_revoke_it on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in threshed,they with_(the),threshing_sledges_of of_(the),iron DOM (the),Gilead )
Yahweh speaks of how Damascus treated Gilead as if they had threshed grain with iron tools or weapons.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
(Occurrence 0) Gilead
(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in three transgressions_of Dammeseq and,on four not I,will_revoke_it on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in threshed,they with_(the),threshing_sledges_of of_(the),iron DOM (the),Gilead )
Here “Gilead” represents the people of the region of Gilead. Alternate translation: [the people of Gilead]
OET-LV Thus YHWH he_says on three (the)_transgressions_of Dammeseq and_on four not I_will_revoke_it because threshed_they with_(the)_threshing_sledges_of (the)_iron DOM (the)_Gilˊād.
OET (OET-RV) This is what Yahweh says:
⇔ “Even if Damesek (Damascus) was three or four sins below the threshold,
⇔ I wouldn’t turn away their punishment,
⇔ for the cruel things they did to the people of Gilead.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.