# Amos 6 (New King James Version)
Warnings to Zion and Samaria

##### Chapter 6
###### 1 Woe to you _who are_ at ease in Zion,  
And trust in Mount Samaria,  
Notable persons in the chief nation,  
To whom the house of Israel comes!  

###### 2 Go over to Calneh and see;  
And from there go to Hamath the great;  
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.  
_Are you_ better than these kingdoms?  
Or is their territory greater than your territory?

###### 3 _Woe to_ you who put far off the day of doom,  
Who cause the seat of violence to come near;  

###### 4 Who lie on beds of ivory,  
Stretch out on your couches,  
Eat lambs from the flock  
And calves from the midst of the stall;  

###### 5 Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,  
_And_ invent for yourselves musical instruments like David;  

###### 6 Who drink wine from bowls,  
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,  
But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.  

###### 7 Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives,  
And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.

###### 8 The Lord God has sworn by Himself,  
The Lord God of hosts says:  
"I abhor the pride of Jacob,  
And hate his palaces;  
Therefore I will deliver up _the_ city  
And all that is in it."

###### 9 Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.  
###### 10 And when a relative _of the dead,_ with one who will burn _the bodies,_ picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, "_Are there_ any more with you?"
Then someone will say, "None."
And he will say, "Hold your tongue! For we dare not mention the name of the Lord."

###### 11 For behold, the Lord gives a command:  
He will break the great house into bits,  
And the little house into pieces.

###### 12 Do horses run on rocks?  
Does _one_ plow _there_ with oxen?  
Yet you have turned justice into gall,  
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 own strength?"

###### 14 "But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you,  
O house of Israel,"  
Says the Lord God of hosts;  
"And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath  
To the Valley of the Arabah."