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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Amos 6 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/amos/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/amos/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Amos 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/5.htm" 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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/amos/6.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Woe to Those at Ease in Zion</p><p><CC><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Woe to those who are at ease in Zion <p class="indent2">And to those who <i>feel</i> secure in the mountain of Samaria, <p class="indent2">The distinguished men of the first of the nations, <p class="indent2">To whom the house of Israel comes. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Pass on over to Calneh and look, <p class="indent2">And go from there to Hamath the great, <p class="indent2">Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. <p class="indent2">Are <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>they better than these kingdoms, <p class="indent2">Or are their borders greater than your borders? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Do you put off the day of calamity, <p class="indent2">And would you cause the seat of violence to approach? <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Those who lay down on beds of ivory <p class="indent2">And sprawl on their couches <p class="indent2">And eat lambs from the flock <p class="indent2">And calves from the midst of the stall, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who improvise to the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sound of the harp, <p class="indent2"><i>And</i> like David have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>composed songs for themselves, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Who drink wine from <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span><i>sacrificial</i> bowls <p class="indent2">While they anoint themselves with the first <i>pick</i> of the oils, <p class="indent2">Yet they have not grieved over the destruction of Joseph. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, they will now go into exile among the first of the exiles, <p class="indent2">And the sprawlers’ <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>banqueting will turn aside. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Lord Yahweh has sworn by Himself, Yahweh God of hosts has declared: <p class="indent2">“I abhor the lofty pride of Jacob <p class="indent2">And hate his citadels; <p class="indent2">Therefore I will deliver up <i>the</i> city as well as its fullness.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-9.htm"><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"><b>10</b></a></span>Then one’s <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>uncle, or the one who <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>burns his <i>bones</i>, will lift him up to bring 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>answer, “Keep quiet. For <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the name of Yahweh is not to be mentioned.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For behold, Yahweh is going to command and will strike the great house to pieces and the small house to fragments. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Do horses run on rocks? <p class="indent2">Or does one plow <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>them with oxen? <p class="indent2">Yet you have overturned justice into gall <p class="indent2">And the fruit of righteousness into <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>wormwood, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You who are glad in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Lo-debar <p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>And say, “Have we not by our <i>own</i> strength taken <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Karnaim for ourselves?” <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you, <p class="indent2">O house of Israel,” declares Yahweh God of hosts, <p class="indent2">“And they will press down on you from <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Lebo-hamath <p class="indent2">To the brook of the Arabah.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>you</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>mouth</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>invented musical instruments</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>sprinkling basins</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>cultic feasts</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>beloved one</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>burns him</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>say</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>not to make mention of the name of</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>the sea with oxen</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>bitterness</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>a thing of nothing</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>Who</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>a pair of horns</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>the entrance of Hamath</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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