Amos 6:7
Good News Translation
So you will be the first to go into exile. Your feasts and banquets will come to an end.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile, and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.

Contemporary English Version
So you will be the first to be dragged off as captives; your good times will end.

New American Bible
Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and the carousing of those who lounged shall cease.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.

shall they.

Amos 5:5,27 But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable. . . .

Amos 7:11 And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

Deuteronomy 28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captives into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles till the times of the nations be fulfilled.

and the.

1 Kings 20:16-20 And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him. . . .

Esther 5:8,12-14 If I have found favour in the king's sight, and if it please the king to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and Aman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I will open my mind to the king. . . .

Esther 7:1,2,8-10 So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen. . . .

Isaiah 21:4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Daniel 5:4-6 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone. . . .

Nahum 1:10 For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.

Context
Woe to those at Ease in Zion
6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph. 7Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.
Cross References
1 Kings 20:16
And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.

Daniel 5:4
They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

Daniel 5:30
The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.

Amos 7:11
And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

Amos 7:17
And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the house of the idol.

Amos 6:6
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