Amos 6
1 Woe to you who live at ease in Zion and feel secure on Mount Samaria, you distinguished leaders of the foremost nation, whom the house of Israel comes to consult!
2 Go to Calneh and see; from there go to Hamath the Great, and go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
3 You push the evil day far away and bring the seat of violence near.
4 You lie on beds of ivory, sprawled on your couches, eating lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
5 You strum the harp and invent musical instruments for yourselves, as David did.
6 You drink wine from large bowls and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
7 So now they will go into exile at the head of the exiles, and the revelry of those sprawled out will end.
8 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself—this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Armies: “I detest Jacob’s pride and hate his palaces. I will hand over the city and everything in it.”
9 If ten men remain in one house, they will die.
10 When a relative, the one who burns the bodies, comes to carry the dead man out to remove the bones from the house, he will ask whoever is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone still with you?” He will answer, “No one.” Then the relative will say, “Quiet! The name of the LORD must not be mentioned.”
11 For the LORD gives the command, and the large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house reduced to rubble.
12 Do horses run on rock? Does anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
13 You rejoice over Lo-Debar and say, “Didn’t we take Karnaim for ourselves by our own strength?”
14 For I am raising up a nation against you, house of Israel—this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Armies—and they will oppress you from Lebo-Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.
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