Amos 6
“Those at Ease in Zion”
1 aWoe to those who are at ease in ZionAnd to those who feel secure in the mountain of Samaria,
The bdistinguished men of the foremost of nations,
To whom the house of Israel comes.
2Go over to cCalneh and look,
And go from there to dHamath the great,
Then go down to eGath of the Philistines.
Are ▼
▼ Or you
they better than these kingdoms,Or is their territory greater than yours?
3Do you gput off the day of calamity,
And would you hbring near the seat of violence?
4Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their icouches,
And jeat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,
5Who improvise to the sound of the harp,
And like David have ▼
▼ Or invented musical instruments
composed lsongs for themselves,6Who mdrink wine from ▼
▼ Lit sprinkling basins
sacrificial bowlsWhile they anoint themselves with the finest of oils,
Yet they have not ogrieved over the ruin of Joseph.
7Therefore, they will now pgo into exile at the head of the exiles,
And the qsprawlers’ ▼
▼ Or cultic feasts
banqueting will ▼▼ Lit turn aside
pass away.8The Lord ▼
▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God has usworn by Himself, the Lord God of hosts has declared:“I vloathe the arrogance of Jacob,
And ▼
▼ Lit hate
detest his xcitadels;Therefore I will ydeliver up the city and ▼
▼ Lit its fullness
all it contains.”9And it will be, if aaten men are left in one house, they will die. 10Then one’s ▼
▼ Or beloved one
uncle, or his ▼▼ Lit one who burns him
,
adundertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will ▼▼ Lit say
answer, af“Keep quiet. For ▼▼ Lit not to make mention of the name of
the name of the Lord is ahnot to be mentioned.” 11For behold, the Lord is going to aicommand that the ajgreat house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments. 12Do horses run on rocks?Or does one plow ▼
▼ Another reading is the sea with oxen
them with oxen?Yet you have turned aljustice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into ▼
▼ I.e. bitterness
wormwood,13You who rejoice in ▼
▼ Lit a thing of nothing
,
aoLodebar,▼
▼ Lit Who
And say, “Have we not aqby our own strength taken ▼▼ Lit a pair of horns
Karnaim for ourselves?”14“For behold, asI am going to raise up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts,
“And they will afflict you from the atentrance of Hamath
To the aubrook of the Arabah.”
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