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The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts):

“I abhor the pride of Jacob,
    and hate his strongholds;
    and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”

And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. 10 And when a man’s kinsman, he who burns him,[a] shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still any one with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

11 For behold, the Lord commands,
    and the great house shall be smitten into fragments,
    and the little house into bits.
12 Do horses run upon rocks?
    Does one plow the sea with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison
    and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar,[b]
    who say, “Have we not by our own strength
    taken Karnaim[c] for ourselves?”
14 “For behold, I will raise up against you a nation,
    O house of Israel,” says the Lord, the God of hosts;
“and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath
    to the Brook of the Arabah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:10 Or who makes a burning for him
  2. Amos 6:13 Or a thing of nought
  3. Amos 6:13 Or horns

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