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title="Amos 5">◄</a> Amos 6 <a href="../amos/7.htm" title="Amos 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/amos/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What sorrow awaits you who lounge in luxury in Jerusalem,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">and you who feel secure in Samaria!</p><p class="line1">You are famous and popular in Israel,</p><p class="line2">and people go to you for help.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But go over to Calneh</p><p class="line2">and see what happened there.</p><p class="line1">Then go to the great city of Hamath</p><p class="line2">and down to the Philistine city of Gath.</p><p class="line1">You are no better than they were,</p><p class="line2">and look at how they were destroyed.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You push away every thought of coming disaster,</p><p class="line2">but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds</p><p class="line2">and lounge on your couches,</p><p class="line1">eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock</p><p class="line2">and of choice calves fattened in the stall.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp</p><p class="line2">and fancy yourselves to be great musicians like David.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You drink wine by the bowlful</p><p class="line2">and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions.</p><p class="line2">You care nothing about the ruin of your nation.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives.</p><p class="line2">Suddenly, all your parties will end.</p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, says: </p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“I despise the arrogance of Israel,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line2">and I hate their fortresses.</p><p class="line1">I will give this city</p><p class="line2">and everything in it to their enemies.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>(If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> 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.”)</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the LORD gives the command,</p><p class="line2">homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Can horses gallop over boulders?</p><p class="line2">Can oxen be used to plow them?</p><p class="line1">But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison</p><p class="line2">and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="line2">You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> by our own strength?”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“O people of Israel, I am about to bring an enemy nation against you,”</p><p class="line2">says the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.</p><p class="line1">“They will oppress you throughout your land—</p><p class="line2">from Lebo-hamath in the north</p><p class="line2">to the Arabah Valley in the south.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">in Zion.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">of Joseph.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Jacob.</span><span class="ft"> See note on 3:13.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">to burn the dead.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:13a </span><span class="it">Lo-debar</span><span class="ft"> means “nothing.”</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:13b </span><span class="it">Karnaim</span><span class="ft"> means “horns,” a term that symbolizes strength.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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