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

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

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.”

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.”

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.

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

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

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”?

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,

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,

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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.”




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