| Amos 6:1 |
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion / And to those who are secure in the mountain of Samaria, / The distinguished among the chief of the nations, / To whom the house of Israel comes! |
| Amos 6:2 |
Go over into Calneh, and see; / And go from there to Hamath the great; / Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. / Are they better than these kingdoms? / Or is their territory greater than your territory? |
| Amos 6:3 |
You who thrust away the evil day / And cause the seat of violence to draw near, |
| Amos 6:4 |
You who lie upon beds of ivory / And sprawl out upon your couches / And eat the lambs from the flock / And the calves from the midst of the stall, |
| Amos 6:5 |
You who prattle to the tune of the harp, / Who make for yourselves instruments of song like David, |
| Amos 6:6 |
You who drink wine in sacrificial bowls / And anoint yourselves with the finest oils; / Yet you are not grieved about the destruction of Joseph. |
| Amos 6:7 |
Therefore they will now go into captivity with the first of the captives, / And the cry of revelry from those who sprawled themselves out will pass / away. |
| Amos 6:8 |
The Lord Jehovah has sworn by Himself, / Declares Jehovah the God of hosts, / I abhor the pride of Jacob, / And his palaces I hate; / Therefore I will deliver up the city and its fullness. |
| Amos 6:9 |
And if ten men remain in one house, they will die. |
| Amos 6:10 |
When his kinsman, that is, he who should burn [his body,] takes him up to bring [his] bones from the house, and says to him who is in the innermost part of the house, Are there any more with you, and [that one] says, None; then he will say, Hush, for the name of Jehovah should not be mentioned. |
| Amos 6:11 |
For it is Jehovah who commands, / And He will strike the great house into fragments / And the little house into pieces. |
| Amos 6:12 |
Do horses run on rock? / Or does one plow [there] with oxen? / But you have turned justice into poison, / And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, |
| Amos 6:13 |
You who rejoice in that which is nothing, / You who say, Have we not taken / By our own strength horns for ourselves? |
| Amos 6:14 |
For I am about to raise up a nation over you, / O house of Israel, declares Jehovah the God of hosts, / And they will oppress you / From the entrance of Hamath / To the brook of the Arabah. |