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[Is] their border greater than your border?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Who are putting away the day of evil, "" And you bring the seat of violence near,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who are lying down on beds of ivory, "" And are spread out on their couches, "" And are eating lambs from the flock, "" And calves from the midst of the stall,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who are taking part according to the stringed instrument, "" Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Who are drinking with bowls of wine, "" And anoint themselves [with] chief perfumes, "" And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore they now go at the head of the captives, "" And the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones is turned aside.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Lord YHWH has sworn by Himself, "" A declaration of YHWH, God of Hosts: “I am abominating the excellence of Jacob, "" And his high places I have hated, "" And I have delivered up the city and its fullness.”<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And if there are left ten persons in one house, "" It has come to pass—that they have died. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And his loved one has lifted him up, even his burner, "" To bring forth the bones from the house, "" And he said to him who [is] in the sides of the house, "" “Is there [any] yet with you?” And he said, “None,” "" Then he said, “Hush! We must not make mention of the Name of YHWH.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For behold, YHWH is commanding, "" And He has struck the great house [with] breaches, "" And the little house [with] clefts.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Do horses run on a rock? Does one plow [it] with oxen? For you have turned judgment to gall, "" And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O you who are rejoicing at nothing, "" Who are saying, “Have we not taken to ourselves horns by our strength?”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Surely, behold, I am raising a nation against you, O house of Israel,” "" A declaration of YHWH, God of Hosts, "" “And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, "" To the stream of the desert.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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