Amos 6

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¹Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! ✦ ²Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border? ✦ ³Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; ✦ ⁴Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall; ✦ ⁵who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; ✦ ⁶who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. ✦ ⁷Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end. ✦ ⁸“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it. ✦ ⁹It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. ✦ ¹⁰“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’ ✦ ¹¹“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. ✦ ¹²Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness; ✦ ¹³you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’ ✦ ¹⁴For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies; “and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Amos 5 ·9 Amos 3 ·5 2 Kgs 17 ·4 Amos 8 ·4 Esth 5 ·3 Amos 9 ·3 2 Kgs 14 ·3 Luke 12 ·3

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Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.

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