Amos 6

¹Woe to you that are rich in Sion, and have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the peoples, going stately into the house of Israel.

²Pass ye into Chalane, and see, and go ye thence into Emath the great: & descend into Geth of the Palestines, and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border.

³You that are separated unto the evil day: & approach to the throne of iniquity.

⁴You that sleep in beds of ivory, and play the wantons in your couches: that eat the lamb out of the flock, & calves out of the midst of the herd.

⁵You that sing to the voice of the psalter: as David they have thought themselves to have the instruments of song.

⁶That drink wine in phials, and are anointed with the best ointment: and they suffered nothing upon the contrition of Joseph.

⁷Wherefore now they shall go in the head of them, that go in transmigration: and the faction of the wantons shall be taken away.

⁸The Lord God hath sworn by his soul, saith our Lord the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.

⁹And if there shall be left ten men in one house, they also shall die.

¹⁰And his kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house: and he shall say to him, that is in the inner parts of the house: Is there yet with thee?

¹¹And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him: Hold thy peace, and remember not the name of our Lord.

¹²Because lo our Lord hath commanded, & he will strike the greater house with ruins, & the lesser house with clefts.

¹³Why can horses run upon rocks, or can there be ploughing with buffles? Because you have turned judgement into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood?

¹⁴Which rejoice in things of naught: which say: Why have not we taken unto us horns in our own strength?

¹⁵For behold I will raise up from you o house of Israel, saith our Lord the God of hosts, a nation: and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.