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Amos 6

"Those at Ease in Zion"

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 aWoe to those who are at ease in Zion And 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.

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Go over to  aCalneh and look, And go from there to  bHamath the great, Then go down to  cGath of the Philistines. Are  1they better than these kingdoms, Or is their territory greater than yours?

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Do you  aput off the day of calamity, And would you  bbring near the seat of violence?

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Those who recline on beds of ivory And sprawl on their  acouches, And  beat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall,

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Who improvise to the sound of the harp, And like David have  1composed  asongs for themselves,

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Who  adrink wine from  1sacrificial bowls While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils, Yet they have not  bgrieved over the ruin of Joseph.

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Therefore, they will now  ago into exile at the head of the exiles, And the  bsprawlers'  1banqueting will  2pass away.

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The Lord  1GOD has  asworn by Himself, the LORD God of hosts has declared: "I  bloathe the arrogance of Jacob, And  2detest his  ccitadels; Therefore I will  ddeliver up the city and  3all it contains."

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And it will be, if  aten men are left in one house, they will die.

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Then one's  1uncle, or his  2 aundertaker, 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  3answer, " bKeep quiet. For  4the name of the LORD is  cnot to be mentioned."

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For behold, the LORD is going to  acommand that the  bgreat house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

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Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow  1them with oxen? Yet you have turned  ajustice into poison And the fruit of righteousness into  2wormwood,

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You who rejoice in  1 aLodebar,  2And say, "Have we not  bby our own strength taken  3Karnaim for ourselves?"

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"For behold,  aI 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  bentrance of Hamath To the  bbrook of the Arabah."



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