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    Amos · 14 verses

    Amos 6

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    They celebrate victories taken by their own strength just as a nation is raised up to oppress them, and their boast has scarcely left the air before the reversal arrives.

    Ease, music, and the ruin of Josephvv. 1–7

    The comfortable distinguish themselves in Zion and on Mount Samaria, while the house of Israel comes to them. They are invited to inspect Calneh, great Hamath, and Gath, as though a tour of fallen kingdoms might interrupt their confidence. It does not: they lounge on ivory beds, feast on lambs and calves, improvise like David, drink by the bowlful, and anoint themselves with the finest oils. The odd little sting is that all this splendour sits beside the ruin of Joseph, which they do not grieve. Therefore the first of the captives will be these very feasters, and the lounging will stop.

    Houses, impossible farming, and the approaching nationvv. 8–14

    The LORD swears that Jacob’s pride and citadels are detestable, and the scene contracts from citadels to one house with ten men left in it. A relative comes to burn the bodies; an answer of “None” is followed by “Silence,” since even the name of the LORD must not be invoked. Great houses will be smashed and small houses reduced to rubble. Then come the splendidly impossible questions: horses on cliffs, oxen plowing the sea. The impossibility is the point of comparison for justice turned into poison and righteousness into wormwood. Israel rejoices in Lo-debar and claims Karnaim, but a nation will oppress the house of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.

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    1. Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

    2. Amos 6:2Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

    3. Amos 6:3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

    4. Amos 6:4You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

    5. Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

    6. Amos 6:6You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

    7. Amos 6:7Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

    8. Amos 6:8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

    9. Amos 6:9And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

    10. Amos 6:10And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

    11. Amos 6:11For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

    12. Amos 6:12“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

    13. Amos 6:13you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’

    14. Amos 6:14For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

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    • 5Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
    • 1James 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
    • 1Isaiah 32:9–11Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
    • 1Luke 12:17–20So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
    • 5Amos 5:23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
    • 1Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
    • 2Nahum 3:8Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
    • 3Amos 9:10All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
    • 8Jeremiah 51:14The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
    • 12Amos 5:7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
    • 3Ezekiel 12:27“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’
    • 3Isaiah 56:12“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
    • 8Amos 4:2The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
    • 11Amos 3:15I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
    • 1Judges 18:7So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.
    • 1Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

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