Amos 6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.

² 0 And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee? And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall any to him: Hold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord.

³ 1 For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

⁴ 2 Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.

⁵ 3 You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by our own strength?

⁶ 4 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.

⁷ These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was formed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo, it was the latter rain after the king's mowing.

⁸ And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?

⁹ The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.

¹⁰ These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.

¹¹ And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?

¹² The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the Lord God.

¹³ These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

¹⁴ And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A mason's trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them over no more.