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The Book of Amos, Chapter 6, Verse 7

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6
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
King James Version
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
American Standard Version
Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
New English Translation
Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.
World English Bible
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.
8
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
10
And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the sides of the house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
11
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12
Shall horses run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
13
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
14
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
1
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king's mowings.
2
And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
3
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.