Amos 6 — Berean Standard Bible

¹ Woe 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 Cross 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 You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence. ⁴ You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall. ⁵ You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments. ⁶ You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph. ⁷ Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end. ⁸ The 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 And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die. ¹⁰ And 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 For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.” 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 you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’ ¹⁴ For 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.”