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Amos 6

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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