1 Woe to those proud people who live, overconfident on the hill of Samaria! Woe to you, men of renown, from the first among the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!
2 Pass through Kalneh and see; from there go to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms were? Is your territory greater than theirs?
3 You hope to postpone the evil day; in fact you bring about a year of violence.
4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and sprawl on your couches; you eat lamb from the flock and veal from calves fattened in the stall.
5 You strum on your harps, and like David, try out new musical instruments.
6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you do not grieve over the ruins of Joseph.
7 Therefore you will be the first to go into exile; and the feast of sprawlers will be over.
8 Yahweh has sworn by his life, "I hate the proud city of Jacob, I hate its palaces. I will hand over the city and all that fills it."
9 In those days, if ten people are left in one house, they shall die.
10 Their kinsman will lift the corpses and bring the bones from the house; when he will say to his comrade at the back part of the house, "Are there any more?" the other will say, "No, but hush! We must not mention the name of Yahweh."
11 For this is Yahweh's command, "The great house shall crumble, and the small house fall to pieces."
12 Do horses run on craggy cliffs? Does anyone plow the sea with oxen? Well, you have turned the rights into a poisonous plant and the sentences of the court into wormwood.
13 You rejoice about unimportant matters when you say, "Are we not winners once more?"
14 Yet am I stirring up against you, Israel, a nation that will oppress you from the pass of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.
Versículos relacionados com Amos, 6:
Amos chapter 6 addresses Israel's complacency and arrogance in its prosperity, ignoring the social justice and the will of God. Instead of trusting God and following their commandments, they trust their own wealth and power. Here are five verses related to the themes of the chapter:
Proverbs 1:32 - "For the apostasy of the simple will kill them, and the prosperity of the fools will destroy them." This verse talks about how prosperity can lead people to deviate from God and his ways, which is exactly what happened to Israel in Amos 6.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 - "He who loves money will never have enough; whoever loves riches will never be satisfied with his income. This is also vanity." This verse emphasizes as the incessant search for riches and prosperity can be vain and unsatisfactory.
Isaiah 5:8 - "Woe to those who add home the house and add field to the field until there is no more place for anyone and are the only inhabitants of the earth!" This verse condemns greed and the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, something that is also criticized in Amos 6.
Jeremiah 22:17 - "But your eyes and your heart are only for your greed, for your violence, for spilling innocent blood, and to practice oppression and extortion." This verse accuses those who put their own richness and power above justice and compassion for others, again relating to the criticism of Amos 6.
1 Timothy 6:17 - "Send to the rich of this world that they are not haughty, nor put hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, which gives us all things to enjoy them." This verse encourages the rich not to be proud of their wealth and not to trust her as their security or source of happiness, something that the Israelites in Amos 6 did not understand.
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