Amos 6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Amos 6Complacent Self-Indulgence Will Be Punished

1 than these kingdoms?

Or is your territory greater than their territory,

3 takes up the body to bring it out of the house and says to someone in the innermost parts of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” the answer will come, “No.” Then the relative shall say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

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But you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

13you who rejoice in Lo-debar,

who say, “Have we not by our own strength

taken Karnaim for ourselves?”

14 Num 34.8; 1 Kings 8.65; Jer 5.15; Am 3.11 Indeed, I am raising up against you a nation,

O house of Israel, says the Lord, the God of hosts,

and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath

to the Wadi Arabah.