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Amos 6:3

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6:3You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come,10

but you establish a reign of violence.11

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Footnotes

  1. 10 Heb “those who push away a day of disaster.”
  2. 11 Heb “you bring near a seat of violence.” The precise meaning of the Hebrew term שֶׁבֶת (shevet, “seat, sitting”) is unclear in this context. The translation assumes that it refers to a throne from which violence (in the person of the oppressive leaders) reigns. Another option is that the expression refers not to the leaders’ oppressive rule, but to the coming judgment when violence will overtake the nation in the person of enemy invaders.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

O you who put far away the day of disaster

and bring near the seat of violence?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You put off the day of disaster

and bring near a reign of terror.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You dismiss any thought of the evil day

and bring in a reign of violence.

NLTNew Living Translation

You push away every thought of coming disaster,

but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You that put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of violence!

KJV 1900King James Version

Ye that put far away the evil day,

And cause the seat of violence to come near;