Amos 5:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Forasmuch 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָ֠כֵן יַ֣עַן בּוֹשַׁסְכֶ֞ם עַל־דָּ֗ל וּמַשְׂאַת־בַּר֙ תִּקְח֣וּ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ בָּתֵּ֥י גָזִ֛ית בְּנִיתֶ֖ם וְלֹא־תֵ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֑ם כַּרְמֵי־חֶ֣מֶד נְטַעְתֶּ֔ם וְלֹ֥א תִשְׁתּ֖וּ אֶת־יֵינָֽם׃

Transliteration

Therefore because bôshasəkhem upon-dāl and-maśʾat-bar tiqḥû from-him, bāttê gāzît bənîtem and-not-tēshəbû in-them; karmê-ḥemed nəṭaʿtem and-not-tishtû ʾet-wine-of-them

Grammar Details

*bôshasəkhem*: infinitive construct, poel + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your trampling
*dāl*: adjective used as noun, masculine singular - poor/weak
*maśʾat-bar*: construct chain, feminine + masculine - tribute of grain
*tiqḥû*: imperfect, qal, 2nd masculine plural - you take
*bāttê*: construct plural of *bayit* - houses of
*gāzît*: noun, feminine singular - hewn stone
*bənîtem*: perfect, qal, 2nd masculine plural - you have built
*tēshəbû*: imperfect, qal, 2nd masculine plural - you will dwell
*karmê*: construct plural of *kerem* - vineyards of
*ḥemed*: noun, masculine singular - delight/desire
*nəṭaʿtem*: perfect, qal, 2nd masculine plural - you have planted
*tishtû*: imperfect, qal, 2nd masculine plural - you will drink

Word Meanings

*bôshasəkhem*: your trampling/your treading down
*dāl*: poor/weak/thin/needy person
*maśʾat-bar*: grain tax/tribute of wheat
*gāzît*: hewn stone/cut stone
*ḥemed*: delight/desire/pleasant

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Referenced Verses

Mic 6:15 : 15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
Deut 28:30 : 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
Zeph 1:13 : 13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Rev 11:8-9 : 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Hag 1:6 : 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Deut 28:38-39 : 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
Isa 5:7-8 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Isa 59:13-14 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isa 65:21-22 : 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Amos 3:15-4:1 : 15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD. 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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