Amos 6:8–14

8 The Lord 1God has asworn by Himself, the Lord God of hosts has declared:

“I bloathe the arrogance of Jacob,

And 2detest his ccitadels;

Therefore I will ddeliver up the city and 3all it contains.”

9 And it will be, if aten men are left in one house, they will die.

10 Then one’s 1uncle, or his 2aundertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will 3answer, “bKeep quiet. For 4the name of the Lord is cnot to be mentioned.”

11 For behold, the Lord is going to acommand that the bgreat house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

12 Do horses run on rocks?

Or does one plow 1them with oxen?

Yet you have turned ajustice into poison

And the fruit of righteousness into 2wormwood,

13 You who rejoice in 1aLodebar,

2And say, “Have we not bby our own strength taken 3Karnaim for ourselves?”

14 “For behold, aI am going to raise up a nation against you,

O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts,

“And they will afflict you from the bentrance of Hamath

To the bbrook of the Arabah.”