Amos 4:5

4:5 Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! ¹ 

Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! ² 

For you love to do this, you Israelites.”

The sovereign Lord is speaking!

Amos 5:6

5:6 Seek the Lord so you can live!

Otherwise he will break out ³  like fire against Joseph’s ⁴  family; ⁵ 

the fire ⁶  will consume

and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel. ⁷ 

[4:5]  ¹ sn For the background of the thank offering of bread made with yeast, see Lev 7:13.

[4:5]  ² tn Heb “proclaim voluntary offerings, announce.”

[5:6]  ³ tn Heb “rush.” The verb depicts swift movement.

[5:6]  ⁴ sn Here Joseph (= Ephraim and Manasseh), as the most prominent of the Israelite tribes, represents the entire northern kingdom.

[5:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “house.”

[5:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fire mentioned in the previous line) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[5:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “to/for Bethel.” The translation assumes that the preposition indicates advantage, “on behalf of.” Another option is to take the preposition as vocative, “O Bethel.”