Amos 6:8-14
1599 Geneva Bible
8 [a]The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord God of hosts, I abhor [b]the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 And if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die.
10 And his uncle [c]shall take him up and burn him, to carry out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him, that is by the [d]sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? And he shall say, None. Then shall he say, [e]Hold thy tongue: for we may not remember 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 [f]run upon the rock? or will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into [g]wormwood.
13 Yet rejoice in a thing of nought: ye say, Have not we gotten us [h]horns by our own strength?
14 But behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God of hosts: and they shall afflict you from the entering in of [i]Hamath unto the river of the wilderness.
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- Amos 6:8 Read Jer. 51:14.
- Amos 6:8 That is, the riches and pomp.
- Amos 6:10 The destruction shall be so great, that none shall almost be left to bury the dead: and therefore they shall burn them at home, to carry out the burnt ashes with more ease.
- Amos 6:10 That is, to some neighbor that dwelleth round about.
- Amos 6:10 They shall be so astonished at this destruction, that they shall boast no more of the Name of God, and that they are his people: but they shall be dumb when they hear God’s Name, and abhor it, as they that are desperate, or reprobate.
- Amos 6:12 He compareth them to barren rocks, whereupon it is in vain to bestow labor: showing that God’s benefits can have no place among them.
- Amos 6:12 Read Amos 5:7.
- Amos 6:13 That is, power and glory.
- Amos 6:14 From one corner of the country to another.
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