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Amos 6:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

You are cruel, and you forget the coming day of judgment.

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Some of you are evil, and you deny that you will ever get caught. But you will be killed.

You say to each other, “Let's drink till we're drunk! Tomorrow we'll do it again. We'll really enjoy ourselves.”

and say, “Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and the world hasn't changed a bit.”

People will think they are safe and secure. But destruction will suddenly strike them like the pains of a woman about to give birth. And they won't escape.

But suppose one of the servants thinks the master won't return until late.

The Lord has said that they don't even know how to do right. They have become rich from violence and robbery.

Ezekiel, son of man, you've heard people in Israel use the saying, “Time passes, and prophets are proved wrong.”

Yet in a single hour her riches disappeared.” Every ship captain and passenger and sailor stood at a distance, together with everyone who does business by traveling on the sea.

Horses can't gallop on rocks; oceans can't be plowed. But you have turned justice and fairness into bitter poison.

You look forward to the day when the Lord comes to judge. But you are in for trouble! It won't be a time of sunshine; all will be darkness.

I am the Lord, and I know your terrible sins. You cheat honest people and take bribes; you rob the poor of justice.

You thought that you would be queen forever. You didn't care what you did; it never entered your mind that you might get caught.

When we see criminals commit crime after crime without being punished, it makes us want to start a life of crime.

But you are opposed to dishonest lawmakers

All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on trash heaps.

Their room was always filled with a noisy crowd of drunkards brought in from the desert. These men gave the women bracelets and beautiful crowns,

You rich people are violent, and everyone tells lies.

Here is a message for the leaders of Philistia and Egypt— tell everyone to come together on the hills of Samaria. Let them see the injustice and the lawlessness in that city.




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