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Amos 6 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Woe to the Complacent

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:2 - Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:3 - You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 - You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 - You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:6 - You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:7 - Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.

The Lord Abhors the Pride of Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:8 - The Sovereign LORD has sworn by himself—the LORD God Almighty declares: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:9 - If ten people are left in one house, they too will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:10 - And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[fn] asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:11 - For the LORD has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12 - Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea[fn] with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:13 - you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar[fn] and say, “Did we not take Karnaim[fn] by our own strength?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14 - For the LORD God Almighty declares, “I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.”
NIV Footnotes
Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead
With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there
Lo Debar means nothing.
Karnaim means horns; horn here symbolizes strength.
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