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first of the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to whom the house of Israel resorts!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Cross over to Calneh, and see;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from there go to Hamath the great;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">then go down to Gath of the Philistines.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Are you better<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26725a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> than these kingdoms?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Or is your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26725b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> territory greater than their<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26725c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> territory,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>O you that put far away the evil day,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and bring near a reign of violence?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and lounge on their couches,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and eat lambs from the flock,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and calves from the stall;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and like David improvise on instruments of music;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>who drink wine from bowls,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and anoint themselves with the finest oils,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span> has sworn by himself</span><br /><span class="text">(says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of hosts):</span><br /><span class="text">I abhor the pride of Jacob</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and hate his strongholds;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.</span></span></p></div> <p class="top-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>If ten people remain in one house, they shall die. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>And if a relative, one who burns the dead,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26733d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> shall take up the body to bring it out of the house, and shall say to someone in the innermost parts of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” the answer will come, “No.” Then the relative<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26733e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> shall say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.”</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>See, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> commands,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the great house shall be shattered to bits,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the little house to pieces.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Do horses run on rocks?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Does one plow the sea with oxen?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26735f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">But you have turned justice into poison</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>you who rejoice in Lo-debar,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26736g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who say, “Have we not by our own strength</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">taken Karnaim<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26736h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> for ourselves?”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Indeed, I am raising up against you a nation,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O house of Israel, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of hosts,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to the Wadi Arabah.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:2">Amos 6:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Are they better</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:2">Amos 6:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>their</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:2">Amos 6:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>your</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:10">Amos 6:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>who makes a burning for him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:10">Amos 6:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:12">Amos 6:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Does one plow them with oxen</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:13">Amos 6:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>in a thing of nothingness</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 6:13">Amos 6:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>horns</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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