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Amos 6 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Wo to those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:2 - Pass ye over to Calneh and see, And go thence to Hamath the great, And go down to Gath of the Philistines, Are they better than these kingdoms? Greater is their border than your border?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:3 - Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 - Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:6 - Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:7 - Therefore now they remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:8 - Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:9 - And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass -- that they have died.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:10 - And lifted him up hath his loved one, 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 yet with thee?' And he said, 'None,' then he said, 'Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:11 - For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12 - Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough it with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:13 - O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, 'Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14 - Surely, lo, I am raising against you a nation, O house of Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts, And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, Unto the stream of the desert.
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