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title: Amos 6
slug: kjv/amos-6
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:09:43.308Z
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**1 **Woe to them *that are* at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, *which are* named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

**2 **Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: *be they* better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

**3 **Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

**4 **That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

**5 **That chant to the sound of the viol, *and* invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

**6 **That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

**7 **Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

**8 **The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

**9 **And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. **10 **And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that *is* by the sides of the house, *Is there* yet *any* with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. **11 **For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

**12 **Shall horses run upon the rock? will *one* plow *there* with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

**13 **Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

**14 **But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.