Amos 6
Open in the reader1Woe to those at ease in Marker and those secure on Mount Watch-Mountain, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Strives-with-God comes.
2Cross over to Calno and see; go from there to the great Fortress; then go down to Wine-Press of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
4You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
5You improvise songs on the harp like Beloved and invent your own musical instruments.
6You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of May-He-Add.
7Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
8The Lord He-Who-Is has sworn by Himself—He-Who-Is, the He-Who-Is of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Heel-Grabber’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
9And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
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 He-Who-Is must not be invoked.”
11For He-Who-Is 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—
13you who rejoice in No-Pasture and say, ‘Did we not take Two-Horns by our own strength?’
14For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Strives-with-God,” declares He-Who-Is, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-Fortress to the Brook of the Arabah.”