Amos 6

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1 Grief at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel!
2 Go to Calneh and see, and from there go to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? Do not extensive beyond their limits of yours?
3 You are far away the evil day, and to come near the seat of violence -
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and soak up your beds, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the fat pastures
5 That chant to the sound of harps, thinking that the instruments of music, like David;
6 drink wine in bowls, smears best suits, and not the affliction of Joseph!
7 Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of the captives, and the end effeminate glee.

8 Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his palaces, and I will deliver the city and all that is therein.
9 And it shall be in one house there remain ten men, it will die and they
10 and take them to their relatives or sozhigatel to bring out the bones out of the house, and say, sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? One answer: no one. And say this: be silent! because we can not mention the name of the Lord.
eleven For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house - cracks.
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? one plow with oxen? For ye have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
13 you who admire a thing of naught, and say, `Is not the power of his own strength, we '?
14 Here am I, says the Lord God of Hosts, raise up against you, O house of Israel, and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the stream in the desert.

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