Mazmur 97:10

97:10 You who love the Lord, hate evil!

He protects ¹  the lives of his faithful followers;

he delivers them from the power ²  of the wicked.

Amos 5:15

5:15 Hate what is wrong, love what is right!

Promote ³  justice at the city gate! ⁴ 

Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on ⁵  those who are left from ⁶  Joseph. ⁷ 

Amos 5:1

Death is Imminent

5:1 Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, ⁸  family ⁹  of Israel:

1 Tesalonika 5:21-22

5:21 But examine all things; hold fast to what is good. 5:22 Stay away from every form of evil.

[97:10]  ¹ tn The participle may be verbal, though it might also be understood as substantival and appositional to “the Lord.” In this case one could translate, “Hate evil, you who love the Lord, the one who protects the lives…and delivers them.”

[97:10]  ² tn Heb “hand.”

[5:15]  ³ tn Heb “set up, establish.” In the ancient Near East it was the responsibility especially of the king to establish justice. Here the prophet extends that demand to local leaders and to the nation as a whole (cf. 5:24).

[5:15]  ⁴ sn Legal disputes were resolved in the city gate (see the note in v. 12). This repetition of this phrase serves to highlight a deliberate contrast to the injustices cited in vv. 11-13.

[5:15]  ⁵ tn Or “will show favor to.”

[5:15]  ⁶ tn Or “the remnant of” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “what’s left of your people.”

[5:15]  ⁷ sn Joseph (= Ephraim and Manasseh), as the most prominent of the Israelite tribes, represents the entire northern kingdom.

[5:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “Listen to this word which I am about to take up against you, a funeral song.”

[5:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”