Amos 6:8-14
The Voice
8 The Eternal Lord has sworn by His own holiness,
and the Eternal God, the Commander of heavenly armies,
Promises this:
Eternal One: I detest the pride of Israel, descendants of My servant Jacob,
and I hate their fortresses,
And I will hand over the city and all its wealth to their enemies.
9 If there are only 10 people left in one house, they will all die. 10 If a man arrives to take his relative’s remains out of the house for burial and he calls back into the darkened house, “Is anyone else with you?” the only survivor will respond, “No.” The relative will cut the survivor off: “Quiet! Not another word! We mustn’t mention the name of the Eternal One.”
11 Look: the Eternal gives the order,
and the great house is smashed to pieces, and the little house crumbles.
12 Do horses gallop over big boulders?
Does a person plow such rocks with a team of oxen?
But you have somehow managed to make justice poisonous
and turned the sweet fruits of righteousness into bitterness—
13 You, who celebrate taking back worthless Lo-debar
and ask, “Haven’t we captured Karnaim with our own strong armies?”
14 Eternal One: You will see—I am raising up a strong nation against you, people of Israel,
and they will hound you from Hamath pass in the north
To the Great Rift Valley at Arabah in the south.
So says the Eternal God, the Commander of heavenly armies.
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