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Amos 6:4 (NLT) New Living Translation

1 What sorrow awaits you who lounge in luxury in Jerusalem, and you who feel secure in Samaria! You are famous and popular in Israel, and people go to you for help.
2 But go over to Calneh and see what happened there. Then go to the great city of Hamath and down to the Philistine city of Gath. You are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed.
3 You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
4 How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds and lounge on your couches, eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock and of choice calves fattened in the stall.
5 You sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp and fancy yourselves to be great musicians like David.
6 You drink wine by the bowlful and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions. You care nothing about the ruin of your nation.
7 Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly, all your parties will end.
8 The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the LORD God of Heaven's Armies, says: "I despise the arrogance of Israel, and I hate their fortresses. I will give this city and everything in it to their enemies." (
9 If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.
10 And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, "Is anyone else with you?" When the person begins to swear, "No, by...," he will interrupt and say, "Stop! Don't even mention the name of the LORD.")
11 When the LORD gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.
12 Can horses gallop over boulders? Can oxen be used to plow them? But that's how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
13 And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar. You boast, "Didn't we take Karnaim by our own strength?"
14 "O people of Israel, I am about to bring an enemy nation against you," says the LORD God of Heaven's Armies. "They will oppress you throughout your land-- from Lebo-hamath in the north to the Arabah Valley in the south."
1 Woe H1945 to them that are at ease H7600 in Zion H6726 , and trust H982 in the mountain H2022 of Samaria H8111 , which are named H5344 chief H7225 CFS of the nations H1471 D-NMP , to whom the house H1004 CMS of Israel H3478 LMS came H935 !
2 Pass H5674 ye unto Calneh H3641 , and see H7200 ; and from thence H8033 M-ADV go H1980 W-VQI2MP ye to Hamath H2574 the great H7227 AMS : then go down H3381 to Gath H1661 of the Philistines H6430 : be they better H2896 than H4480 PREP these H428 D-DPRO-3MP kingdoms H4467 ? or H518 PART their border H1366 greater H7227 AMS than your border H1366 ?
3 Ye that put far away H5077 the evil H7451 AMS day H3117 L-NMS , and cause the seat H7675 of violence H2555 AMS to come near H5066 ;
4 That lie H7901 upon H5921 PREP beds H4296 of ivory H8127 , and stretch H5628 themselves upon H5921 PREP their couches H6210 , and eat H398 the lambs H3733 out of the flock H6629 , and the calves H5695 out of the midst H8432 of the stall H4770 ;
5 That chant H6527 to H5921 PREP the sound H6310 of the viol H5035 , and invent H2803 to themselves instruments H3627 of music H7892 , like David H1732 ;
6 That drink H8354 wine H3196 NMS in bowls H4219 , and anoint H4886 themselves with the chief H7225 ointments H8081 : but they are not H3808 W-NPAR grieved H2470 for H5921 PREP the affliction H7667 of Joseph H3130 .
7 Therefore H3651 L-ADV now H6258 ADV shall they go captive H1540 with the first H7218 B-NMS that go captive H1540 , and the banquet H4797 of them that stretched H5628 themselves shall be removed H5493 W-VQPMS .
8 The Lord H136 EDS GOD H3069 hath sworn H7650 by himself H5315 B-GFS-3MS , saith H5002 the LORD H3068 EDS the God H430 CDP of hosts H6635 , I H595 PPRO-1MS abhor H8374 the excellency H1347 CMS of Jacob H3290 , and hate H8130 his palaces H759 : therefore will I deliver up H5462 the city H5892 GFS with all that is therein H4393 .
9 And it shall come to pass H1961 W-VQQ3MS , if H518 PART there remain H3498 ten H6235 men H376 NMP in one H259 MMS house H1004 , that they shall die H4191 .
10 And a man\'s uncle H1730 shall take him up H5375 , and he that burneth H5635 him , to bring out H3318 the bones H6106 out of H4480 PREP the house H1004 D-NMS , and shall say H559 unto him that H834 L-RPRO is by the sides H3411 of the house H1004 D-NMS , Is there yet H5750 any with H5973 PREP-2FS thee ? and he shall say H559 , No H657 . Then shall he say H559 , Hold thy tongue H2013 : for H3588 CONJ we may not H3808 NADV make mention H2142 of the name H8034 B-CMS of the LORD H3068 NAME-4MS .
11 For H3588 CONJ , behold H2009 IJEC , the LORD H3068 EDS commandeth H6680 , and he will smite H5221 the great H1419 D-AMS house H1004 D-NMS with breaches H7447 , and the little H6996 D-AMS house H1004 with clefts H1233 .
12 Shall horses H5483 run H7323 upon the rock H5553 ? will one plow H2790 there with oxen H1241 ? for H3588 CONJ ye have turned H2015 judgment H4941 NMS into gall H7219 , and the fruit H6529 of righteousness H6666 NFS into hemlock H3939 :
13 Ye which rejoice H8055 D-AMP in a thing of naught H3808 L-NPAR , which say H559 D-VQPMP , Have we not H3808 D-NPAR taken H3947 to us horns H7161 by our own strength H2392 ?
14 But H3588 CONJ , behold H2009 , I will raise up H6965 VHPMS against H5921 PREP-2MP you a nation H1471 NMS , O house H1004 CMS of Israel H3478 , saith H5002 the LORD H3068 EDS the God H430 CDP of hosts H6635 ; and they shall afflict H3905 you from the entering in of Hemath H2574 unto H5704 PREP the river H5158 NMS of the wilderness H6160 .
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