Amos 6
1ALAS for them who despise Sion and have put their trust in the mount of Samaria. They have gathered as a vintage the governments of nations and gone in.
2O house of Israel, Go ye all over [to Chalane] and see, and thence pass on to Ematraba and thence go down to Gath of the Philistines, to the strongest of all those kingdoms of theirs. Are their borders larger than yours,
3who are coming to an evil day, who are drawing near and on the point of touching false sabbaths?
4Some of you are sleeping on beds of ivory and lolling a t ease on couches, and eating kids from the flocks, and from the herds calves fed with milk;
5some are dwelling on the sound of musical instruments, as if they thought it eternal and not transient.
6Some are drinking filtered wine and anointing themselves with most precious ointment, and have no feeling for the affliction of Joseph.
7Now for this cause, from being a government of mighty people they shall be captives, and the neighing of horses shall be taken away from Ephraim.
8For the Lord hath sworn by Himself: As I abhor all this haughtiness of Jacob and have hated all his regions, therefore I will destroy cities with their inhabitants.
9And it shall come to pass that if ten chief men be left in one family, they shall die,
10and the residue shall be left and their domestics shall succeed them. And when they are pressed to bring their bones out of the house, one will say to them who are over the family, Are there any more yet with thee? And when one will say, There is no more: then will one say, Forbear to mention the name of the Lord on this account;
11for behold the Lord commandeth, and He will smite the great house with breaches and the small house with fractures. j
12Can horses pursue among rocks? Will they refrain from whinnying a t females? Because you have turned judgment into fury, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
13some rejoicing in a thing of naught, and others saying, Have we not by our own strength taken horns?
14Therefore, behold I will raise up against you, 0 house of Israel, a nation, saith the Lord of hosts, who shall afflict you that you may not enter the bay of Aimath, nor approach the brook at the settings of the sun