Amus (Amos) — 6
1 What sorrow awaits you who lounge in luxury in Yahushalam, and you who feel secure in Samaria! You are famous and popular in Yashar'AL, and people go to you for help.
2 But go over to Calnah and see what happened there, then go to the great city of Hamath and down to the Philistine city of Gath, you are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed.
3 You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
4 How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds and lounge on your couches, eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock and of choice calves fattened in the stall.
5 You sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp and fancy yourselves to be great musicians like king Daud.
6 You drink wine by the bowlful and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions. You care nothing about the ruin of your nation.
7 Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives, suddenly, all your parties will end.
8 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has sworn by His own Name, and this is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Shamaym Armies, Dabar: “I despise the arrogance of Yashar'AL, and I hate their fortresses, I will give this city and everything in it to their enemies.”
9 If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.
10 And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Do not even mention the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.”
11 When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.
12 Can horses gallop over boulders? Can oxen be used to plow them? But that is how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
13 And you brag about your conquest of Lu-dabar, you boast, “Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?”
14 “O people of Yashar'AL, I am about to bring an enemy nation against you,” says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut. “They will oppress you throughout your land, from Labu-hamath in the north to the Arabah Valley in the south.”