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Amos 6

Against the princes of Israél living in pleasures.
1.Wo to athem that are at ease in Zión and trust in the mountain of Samaria, bwhich were famous at the beginning of the nations: and the house of Israél came to them.
2.Go you unto Calnéh, & see: and from thence go you to Hamáth the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistims: be cthey better then these kingdoms? or the border of their land greater then your border,
3.Ye that put far away the devil day, and approach to the seat of iniquity?
4.They lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch them selves upon their beds, & eat the lambs of the flock, and the calves out of the stall.
5.They sing to the sound of the viol: they invent to them selves instruments of musicke like eDavid.
6.They drink wine in bowls, and anoint them selves with the chief ointments, but no man is fsorry for the affliction of Joséph.
7.Therefore now shal they go captive with the first that go captive, and gthe sorrow of them that stretched them selves, is at hand.
8.hThe Lord God hath sworn by him self, saith the Lord God of hostes, I abhor ithe excellencie of Jaakób, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9.And if there remain ten men in one house, they shal die.
10.And his uncle kshal take him up and burn him to carry out the bones out of the house, and shal say unto him, that is by lthe sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? And he shal say, None. Then shal he say, mHold thy tongue: for we may not remember the Name of the Lord.
11.For behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little houses with clefts.
12.Shal horses mrun upon the rock? or will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgement into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into owormwood.
13.Ye rejoyce in a thing of naught: ye say, Have not we gotten us phornes by our own strength?
14.But behold, I will raise up against you a nation, ô house of Israél, saith the Lord God of hostes: and they shal afflict you, from the entering in of qHamáth unto the river of the wilderness.

Notes

1-a.
The Prophet threatens the wealthy, which regarded not God’s plagues nor menaces by his Prophets.
1-b.
These two cities were famous by their first inhabitants the Canaanites: and seeing before time them did nothing avail them that were there born, why should you look that they should save you, which were brought in to dwell in other men’s possessions?
2-c.
If God have destroyed these excellent cities in three divers kingdoms, as Babylon, Syria, and of the Philistims, and has brought their wide borders into a greater straightness, then yours yet are, think you to be better or to escape?
3-d.
You that continue still in your wickedness & think, that God’s plagues are not at hand, but give yourselves to all idleness, wantonness and riot.
5-e.
As he caused divers kinds of instruments to be made to serve God’s glory, so these did contend to invent as many to serve their wanton affections and lusts.
6-f.
Pitied their brethren whereof now many are slain and carried away captive.
7-g.
Some read, the joy of them that stretched themselves, shall depart.
8-h.
Read Jer. 51.14.
8-i.
That is, the riches and pomp.
10-k.
The destruction shall be so great that none shall almost be left to bury the dead: and therefore they shall burn them at home, to carry out the burnt ashes with more ease.
10-l.
That is, to some neighbour, that dwells round about.
10-m.
They shall be so astonished at this destruction, that they shall boast no more of the Name of God, and that they are his people: but they shall be dumb when they hear God’s name and abhor it, as they that are desperate or reprobate.
12-n.
He compares them to barren rocks whereupon it is in vain to bestow labour: showing that God’s benefits can have no place among them.
12-o.
Read Ch. 5.7.
13-p.
That is, power and glory.
14-q.
From one corner of the country to another