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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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/amos/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Woe to the Complacent</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Woe to you who are complacent in Zion,</p><p class="line2">and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria,</p><p class="line1">you notable men of the foremost nation,</p><p class="line2">to whom the people of Israel come!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Go to Kalneh and look at it;</p><p class="line2">go from there to great Hamath,</p><p class="line2">and then go down to Gath in Philistia.</p><p class="line1">Are they better off than your two kingdoms?</p><p class="line2">Is their land larger than yours?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You put off the day of disaster</p><p class="line2">and bring near a reign of terror.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You lie on beds adorned with ivory</p><p class="line2">and lounge on your couches.</p><p class="line1">You dine on choice lambs</p><p class="line2">and fattened calves.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You strum away on your harps like David</p><p class="line2">and improvise on musical instruments.</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 use the finest lotions,</p><p class="line2">but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.</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 among the first to go into exile;</p><p class="line2">your feasting and lounging will end.</p></div> <p class="sectionhead">The <span class="name">Lord</span> Abhors the Pride of Israel</p><p class="introduction"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> has sworn by himself—the <span class="name">Lord</span> God Almighty declares:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“I abhor the pride of Jacob</p><p class="line2">and detest his fortresses;</p><p class="line1">I will deliver up the city</p><p class="line2">and everything in it.”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If ten people are left in one house, they too will die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead">a</a></sup></span> asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the <span class="name">Lord</span>.”</p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the <span class="name">Lord</span> has given the command,</p><p class="line2">and he will smash the great house into pieces</p><p class="line2">and the small house into bits.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Do horses run on the rocky crags?</p><p class="line2">Does one plow the sea <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there">b</a></sup></span> with oxen?</p><p class="line1">But you have turned justice into poison</p><p class="line2">and the 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>you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Lo Debar means nothing.">c</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line2">and say, “Did we not take Karnaim <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Karnaim means horns; horn here symbolizes strength.">d</a></sup></span> by our own strength?”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the <span class="name">Lord</span> God Almighty declares,</p><p class="line2">“I will stir up a nation against you, Israel,</p><p class="line1">that will oppress you all the way</p><p class="line2">from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text <i>plow there</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Lo Debar</i> means <i>nothing.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Karnaim</i> means <i>horns</i>; <i>horn</i> here symbolizes strength.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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