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1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion[#Ex 19.5; Isa 32.9–11; Am 3.2; Lk 6.24]
and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria,
the notables of the first of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel resorts!
2Cross over to Calneh and see;[#2 Kings 18.34; 2 Chr 26.6; Isa 10.9; Jer 2.10; Nah 3.8]
from there go to Hamath the great;
then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are you better than these kingdoms?
Or is your territory greater than their territory,
3you who put far away the evil day[#Isa 56.12; Am 9.10]
and bring near a reign of violence?
4Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory[#Ezek 34.2, 3; Am 3.12, 15]
and lounge on their couches
and eat lambs from the flock
and calves from the stall,
5who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp[#1 Chr 23.5; Isa 5.12; Am 5.23]
and like David improvise on instruments of music,
6who drink wine from bowls[#Gen 37.25; Ezek 9.4; Am 2.8; 4.1]
and anoint themselves with the finest oils
but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
7Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile,[#Dan 5.4–6, 30; Am 7.11, 17]
and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.
8The Lord God has sworn by himself[#Deut 32.19; Ps 106.40; Jer 51.14; Heb 6.13]
(says the Lord , the God of hosts):
I abhor the pride of Jacob
and hate his strongholds,
and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.
9If ten people remain in one house, they shall die.
10And if a relative, one who burns it, 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 .”[#6.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain; #6.10 Heb he]
11For the Lord commands,[#Isa 55.11; Am 3.15]
and he will shatter the great house to bits
and the little house to pieces.
12Do horses run on rocky crags?[#Isa 59.13, 14; Am 5.7]
Does one plow the sea with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
13you who rejoice in Lo-debar,[#6.13 Or in a thing of nothingness]
who say, “Have we not by our own strength
taken Karnaim for ourselves?”
14Indeed, I am raising up against you a nation,[#Num 34.8; 1 Kings 8.65; Jer 5.15; Am 3.11]
O house of Israel, says the Lord , the God of hosts,
and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath
to the Wadi Arabah.