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OET (OET-LV) woe_to the_desire DOM the_day_of YHWH to/for_what this to/for_you_all the_day_of YHWH it will_be_darkness and_not light.
OET (OET-RV) 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,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
(Occurrence 0) Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
(Some words not found in UHB: alas the,desire DOM day YHWH to/for=what this to/for=you_all day YHWH he/it darkness and=not light )
God uses this question to rebuke the people for saying that they want the day of Yahweh to be soon. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this question as a statement. Alternate translation: “You long for the day of Yahweh.” or “You should not long for the day of Yahweh!”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
(Occurrence 0) It will be darkness and not light
(Some words not found in UHB: alas the,desire DOM day YHWH to/for=what this to/for=you_all day YHWH he/it darkness and=not light )
Here “darkness” represents a time when disasters happen, and “light” represents a time when good things happen. Alternate translation: “It will be a time of darkness and disaster, not of light and blessing”
5:18–6:14 The pronouncements of sorrow in this section develop two themes: (1) Israel’s apostasy would make the “day of the Lord” a day of judgment, not salvation; and (2) Judah’s spiritual complacency would also bring judgment.
5:18 Amos again confronts the Israelites’ distorted view of their chosen status (see 3:2).
• The phrase What sorrow awaits you denotes despair brought on by a great tragedy.
• The day of the Lord in the Old Testament (see Isa 13:6, 9) was a time when God would intervene in the world to set right those things that had gone wrong. God’s intervention would mean vindication for the righteous, but judgment for the wicked. Israel thought that on that day (see also Amos 8:3, 9, 13; 9:11) God would save them. However, because the Israelites had been wicked, the day of the Lord would bring darkness, not light. Assyria conquered the northern kingdom in 722 BC (2 Kgs 17:7-23), fulfilling this prophecy.
OET (OET-LV) woe_to the_desire DOM the_day_of YHWH to/for_what this to/for_you_all the_day_of YHWH it will_be_darkness and_not light.
OET (OET-RV) 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,
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.