Amos 6:8-14
Authorized (King James) Version
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.
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.