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Amos 6:3

Modern English Version

You who brush off the day of disaster, but bring on a session of lawlessness;

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Shall a throne of iniquity which devises mischief by decree, have fellowship with you?

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of people is fully set to do evil.

You said, “I shall be a queen forever,” but you did not take these things to heart, nor remember the outcome of them.

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as today, only more so.”

Those who once ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.

Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have in the land of Israel, saying, “The days are prolonged, and every vision fails”?

Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, “The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.”

A sound of a multitude at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.

Proclaim to the fortresses in Ashdod, and the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and say: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, and the oppression in her midst.”

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are grievous, you who oppress the just, who take a bribe and subvert the needy at the gate.

Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light,

Can horses run on a rocky crag? Can one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

All the sinners of My people will die by the sword, those who say, “Never will disaster reach or overtake us.”

Her wealthy men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak deception, and their tongue in their mouth is treachery.

But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’

When they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

and say, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were since the beginning of the creation.”

In one hour such great riches came to nothing!’ “All sea captains and seafaring men, sailors and all who trade by sea, stood far off,




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