Amos 6:4-14 ▼

4 those laying down on beds of ivory and stretching out on their couches, and eating lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,

5 those singing foolishly over the mouth of the harp, like David, devising for themselves all manner of song;

6 those drinking from bowls of wine, and with the finest ointments they anoint themselves—and they are not grieved over the breach of Joseph!

7 Therefore now they will be removed at the head of the captives, and will be turned aside the feasting and lounging.

8 The Lord YHWH has sworn by Himself, a declaration of YHWH, the God of Hosts, “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and his citadels I hate! And I will deliver up the city and its fullness.”

9 And if ten men should remain in a single house, then It will come to pass that they also will die.

10 And his loved one lifts him up, even his burner, to bring out the bones from the house; and he will say to the one inside the house, “Are there any with you?” And he will say, “None.” And he will say, “Hush, for must not make mention of the name of YHWH.”

11 For behold, YHWH is giving a command, and He will strike the great house to pieces, and the little house to bits!

12 “Do horses run on the rock? Or does one plow there with the oxen? Yet you? have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

13 being glad in Lo-debar, saying, ‘Is it not by our own strength that we have taken for ourselves Karnaim?’

14 For behold, I am raising up against you? a nation, O house of Israel,” a declaration of YHWH, the God of Hosts, “And they will oppress you? from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah!”