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Yahweh Abhors Israel’s Pride

My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, declares[a] Yahweh, the God of hosts: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!” And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die. 10 And if one’s relative, who burns the body, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, “Are there any more with you?” and he will say, “None,” then he will say, “Silence,” because we must not invoke the name of Yahweh. 11 Look, Yahweh is going to command and the great house will be destroyed to bits and the little house to pieces. 12 Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen?[b] But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood! 13 You who rejoice over Lo-Debar, who say, “Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves by our strength?” 14 Indeed, I am going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, declares[c] Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:8 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Amos 6:12 Or “does one plow them with oxen”
  3. Amos 6:14 Literally “a declaration of”

Israel’s Pride Judged

The Lord God has sworn by himself(A)—this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Armies:

I loathe Jacob’s pride(B)
and hate his citadels,(C)
so I will hand over the city(D) and everything in it.

And if there are ten men left in one house, they will die.(E) 10 A close relative[a] and burner[b](F) will remove his corpse[c] from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?”

That person will reply, “None.”

Then he will say, “Silence, because the Lord’s name must not be invoked.”(G)

11 For the Lord commands:

The large house will be smashed to pieces,
and the small house to rubble.(H)

12 Do horses gallop on the cliffs?
Does anyone plow there with oxen?[d]
Yet you have turned justice into poison(I)
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood(J)
13 you who rejoice over Lo-debar(K)
and say, “Didn’t we capture Karnaim
for ourselves by our own strength?” (L)
14 But look, I am raising up a nation
against you, house of Israel(M)
this is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Armies—
and they will oppress you
from the entrance of Hamath[e](N)
to the Brook of the Arabah.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 6:10 Lit His uncle
  2. 6:10 A burner of incense, a memorial fire, or a body; Hb obscure
  3. 6:10 Lit remove bones
  4. 6:12 Some emend to plow the sea
  5. 6:14 Or from Lebo-hamath
  6. 6:14 Probably the Valley of Zared at the southeast end of the Dead Sea