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Moff AMOS Chapter 6

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6 so eager to avert the evil day,

3 so keen upon injustice?

19 A man runs from a lion,

and a bear springs at him;

he hides indoors, and, resting his hand on the wall,

a serpent bites him–

20 is not that the day of the Eternal,

danger, not safety,

pitch dark, and not a ray of light?

21 Your sacred festivals? I hate them, scorn them;

your sacrifices? I will not smell their smoke;

22 you offer me your gifts? I will not take them;

you offer fatted cattle? I will not look at them.

23 No more of your hymns for me!

I will not listen to your lutes.

24 No, let justice well up like fresh water,

let honesty roll in full tide.

25 Was it sacrifice and offering you brought me

all the forty years within the desert, Israel?

26 So now you must shoulder your king Sakkut,

and Kaiwan your star-god,

idols you have manufactured;

26 for into exile I send you, far away beyond Damascus,

the Eternal, the God of hosts, declares.

24 [[Seek to be honest, not evil,

and so life;

that the Eternal may be with you,

as you think he is.

15 Hate evil and love honesty,

set justice up again;

it may be that the Eternal, the God of hosts,

may pity those left of the house of Joseph.]]

6 Woe to the careless citizens,

so confident in high Samaria,

leaders of this most ancient race,

who are like gods in Israel!–

2 [[Pass over to Kalneh, look at it,

then on to great Hamath,

then down to Gath of the Philistines.

Are you any better than these realms,

is your land larger than theirs?]]

4 lolling on their ivory diwans,

sprawling on their couches,

dining off fresh lamb and fatted veal,

5 crooning to the music of the lute,

composing airs like David himself,

6 lapping wine by the bowlful,

and using for ointment the best of the oil–

with never a single thought

for the bleeding wounds of the nation.

7 So now they must head the exiles;

that dissolute crew shall disappear–

by order of the Eternal, the God of hosts.

8 The Lord Eternal has sworn by his own life,

“I loathe the pride of Jacob,

his palaces I hate;

I will abandon the city and all it holds,

11 the mansion to be pulled to pieces,

the small house to be shattered.

9 [[And it shall be that if ten men are left within a house, they shall die. 10 If some survivor who brings out their bodies from the house for burial calls to a woman in the corner, ‘Are there any left alive?’ she will answer, ‘No! They all did sinfully.’ She will cry, ‘Call upon the Eternal!’]]

12 Shall horses race over crags,

or oxen plough the sea,

that you make a poison of justice,

a bitter, deadly thing?

13 You are so proud of Lo-Dear,

you think you captured Karnaim by your own strength.

14 But I am rousing against you a nation, O house of Israel,

says the Eternal, the God of hosts,

and they shall harry you

from the pass of Hamath to the wady of the Arâbah.”

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