Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, Isa 32:9-11Jas 5:5Luk 12:17-20Amo 4:1Exo 19:5-6Jdg 18:7Zep 1:12Jas 1:18
and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria,
the notable men of the chief of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel come!
Go to Calneh, and see. Nam 3:82Ki 18:34Gen 10:102Ch 26:61Sa 17:4Isa 10:9-111Ki 8:651Sa 17:23
From there go to Hamath the great.
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are they better than these kingdoms?
Is their border greater than your border?
Alas for you who put far away the evil day, Amo 9:10Ezk 12:27Isa 56:121Th 5:32Pe 3:4Amo 3:10Ezk 12:22Mat 24:48
and cause the seat of violence to come near,
who lie on beds of ivory, Amo 3:121Sa 25:36-38Ezk 34:2-3Isa 22:13Isa 5:11-12Jas 5:5Luk 12:19-20Luk 16:19
and stretch themselves on their couches,
and eat the lambs out of the flock,
and the calves out of the middle of the stall,
who strum on the strings of a harp, Isa 5:12Amo 5:23Amo 8:31Ch 15:161Ch 23:51Pe 4:3Ecc 2:8Gen 31:27
who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
who drink wine in bowls, Gen 49:221Co 12:261Ti 5:232Ki 15:292Ki 17:3-6Amo 2:8Est 3:15Ezk 9:4
and anoint themselves with the best oils,
but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive. Amo 7:111Ki 20:16-20Amo 5:5Dan 5:4-6Amo 5:27Amo 7:17Deu 28:41Est 5:12-14
The feasting and lounging will end.
“The Lord GOD has sworn by himself,” says the LORD, the God of Armies: Jer 51:14Amo 4:2Amo 8:7Jer 22:5Psa 47:4Amo 3:11Psa 106:40Deu 32:19
“I abhor the pride of Jacob,
and detest his fortresses.
Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
It will happen that if ten men remain in one house, Amo 5:31Sa 2:33Est 5:11Est 9:10Isa 14:21Job 1:19Job 1:2Job 20:28
they will die.
“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention the LORD’s name.’ 1Sa 31:12Amo 8:3Amo 5:13Ezk 20:39Ezk 24:21Jer 16:6Jer 44:26Num 17:12
“For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, Amo 3:15Isa 55:112Ki 25:9Amo 6:8Amo 9:9Luk 19:44Nam 1:14Zec 14:2
and the little house into bits.
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Amo 5:7Hos 10:4Amo 5:11-12Isa 59:13-141Ki 21:7-13Isa 48:4Psa 94:20-21Act 7:51-52
Does one plow there with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison,
and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Isa 28:14-15Luk 12:19-202Ki 14:25Jas 4:161Sa 4:52Ch 28:6-82Ki 13:252Ki 14:12-14
‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’
For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,” 1Ki 8:652Ki 14:25Jer 5:15-172Ki 15:292Ki 17:6Ezk 47:15-17Hos 10:5Isa 7:20
says the LORD, the God of Armies;
“and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”