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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Those who recline on beds of ivory<br>         And sprawl on their couches,<br>         And eat lambs from the flock<br>         And calves from the midst of the stall, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Who improvise to the sound of the harp,<br>         <i>And</i> like David have composed songs for themselves, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls<br>         While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils,<br>         Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles,<br>         And the sprawlers banqueting will pass away. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The Lord G<font size="1">OD</font> has sworn by Himself, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of hosts has declared:<br>         I loathe the arrogance of Jacob,<br>         And detest his citadels;<br>         Therefore I will deliver up <i>the</i> city and all it contains.<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then ones uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out <i>his</i> bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, Is anyone else with you? And that one will say, No one. Then he will answer, Keep quiet. For the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is not to be mentioned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>For behold, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Do horses run on rocks?<br>         Or does one plow them with oxen?<br>         Yet you have turned justice into poison<br>         And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>You who rejoice in Lodebar,<br>         And say, Have we not by our <i>own</i> strength taken Karnaim for ourselves? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,<br>         O house of Israel, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of hosts,<br>         And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath<br>         To the brook of the Arabah. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/amos/6.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />-ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/amos/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/amos/6.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/amos/6.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/amos/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/amos/6.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/amos/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/the_carcass_and_the_eagles.htm">The Carcass and the Eagles</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 2. Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? 3. Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4. That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/the_carcass_and_the_eagles.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/june_the_twenty-fourth_at_ease.htm">June the Twenty-Fourth at Ease in Zion</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Woe to them that are at ease in Zion!" --AMOS vi. 1-7. I would be delivered from the folly of confusing ease and rest. There is an infinite difference between comforts and comfort. It is one thing to lie down on a luxurious couch: it is a very different thing to "lie down in green pastures" under the gracious shepherdliness of the Lord. The ease which men covet is so often a fruit of stupefaction, the dull product of sinful drugs, the wretched sluggishness of carnal gratification and excess. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/june_the_twenty-fourth_at_ease.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_33_1887/a_sermon_for_the_time.htm">A Sermon for the Time Present</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I am going to begin with the last verse of the text, and work my way upwards. The first; head is, a trying day for God's people. They are sorrowful because a cloud is upon their solemn assembly, and the reproach thereof is a burden. Secondly, we will note a glorious ground of consolation. We read in the seventeenth verse, "The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing." And, thirdly, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_33_1887/a_sermon_for_the_time.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 33: 1887</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_proper_to_3.htm">Whether it is Proper to Christ to be Head of the Church?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It seems that it is not proper to Christ to be Head of the Church. For it is written (1 Kings 15:17): "When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel?" Now there is but one Church in the New and the Old Testament. Therefore it seems that with equal reason any other man than Christ might be head of the Church. Objection 2: Further, Christ is called Head of the Church from His bestowing grace on the Church's members. But it belongs to others <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_proper_to_3.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_19_of_christian_liberty.htm">Of Christian Liberty. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. Connection of this chapter with the previous one on Justification. A true knowledge of Christian liberty useful and necessary. 1. It purifies the conscience. 2. It checks licentiousness. 3. It maintains the merits of Christ, the truth of the Gospel, and the peace of the soul. 2. This liberty consists of three parts. First, Believers renouncing the righteousness of the law, look only to Christ. Objection. Answer, distinguishing between Legal and Evangelical righteousness. 3. This first part clearly <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_19_of_christian_liberty.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/of_orders.htm">Of Orders. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Of this sacrament the Church of Christ knows nothing; it was invented by the church of the Pope. It not only has no promise of grace, anywhere declared, but not a word is said about it in the whole of the New Testament. Now it is ridiculous to set up as a sacrament of God that which can nowhere be proved to have been instituted by God. Not that I consider that a rite practised for so many ages is to be condemned; but I would not have human inventions established in sacred things, nor should it be <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/of_orders.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">First Principles of the Reformation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_amos.htm">The Prophet Amos. </a><br></span><span class="snippet"> GENERAL PRELIMINARY REMARKS. It will not be necessary to extend our preliminary remarks on the prophet Amos, since on the main point--viz., the circumstances under which he appeared as a prophet--the introduction to the prophecies of Hosea may be regarded as having been written for those of Amos also. For, according to the inscription, they belong to the same period at which Hosea's prophetic ministry began, viz., the latter part of the reign of Jeroboam II., and after Uzziah had ascended the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophet_amos.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_iitiglath-pileser_iii_and_the.htm">Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire from 745 to 722 B. C. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">TIGLATH-PILESER III. AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE FROM 745 to 722 B.C. FAILURE OF URARTU AND RE-CONQUEST Of SYRIA--EGYPT AGAIN UNITED UNDER ETHIOPIAN AUSPICES--PIONKHI--THE DOWNFALL OF DAMASCUS, OF BABYLON, AND OF ISRAEL. Assyria and its neighbours at the accession of Tiglath-pileser III.: progress of the Aramaeans in the basin of the Middle Tigris--Urartu and its expansion into the north of Syria--Damascus and Israel--Vengeance of Israel on Damascus--Jeroboam II.--Civilisation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_iitiglath-pileser_iii_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/3_3_the_wrath_of_god.htm">The Wrath of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">What does every sin deserve? God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and in that which is to come. Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.' Matt 25: 41. Man having sinned, is like a favourite turned out of the king's favour, and deserves the wrath and curse of God. He deserves God's curse. Gal 3: 10. As when Christ cursed the fig-tree, it withered; so, when God curses any, he withers in his soul. Matt 21: 19. God's curse blasts wherever it comes. He deserves also God's wrath, which is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/3_3_the_wrath_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Ten Commandments</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../amos/6-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Amos 6:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Amos 6:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../amos/6-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Amos 6:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Amos 6:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/amos/6-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>