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“Those at Ease in Zion”
1 AWoe to those who are at ease in Zion
And to those who feel secure in the mountain of Samaria,
The
Bdistinguished men of the foremost of nations,
To whom the house of Israel comes.
2 Go over to
ACalneh and look,
And go from there to
BHamath the great,
Then go down to
CGath of the Philistines.
Are
1they better than these kingdoms,
Or is their territory greater than yours?
3 Do you
Aput off the day of calamity,
And would you
Bbring near the seat of violence?
4 Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their
Acouches,
And
Beat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,
5 Who improvise to the sound of the harp,
And like David have
1composed
Asongs for themselves,
6 Who
Adrink wine from
1sacrificial bowls
While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils,
Yet they have not
Bgrieved over the ruin of Joseph.
7 Therefore, they will now
Ago into exile at the head of the exiles,
And the
Bsprawlers’
1banqueting will
2pass away.
8 The Lord
1Goᴅ has
Asworn by Himself, the Loʀᴅ God of hosts has declared:
“I
Bloathe the arrogance of Jacob,
And
2detest his
Ccitadels;
Therefore I will
Ddeliver up
the city and
3all it contains.”
9 And it will be, if
Aten men are left in one house, they will die.
10 Then one’s
1uncle, or his
2Aundertaker, will lift him up to carry out
his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will
3answer, “
BKeep quiet. For
4the name of the Loʀᴅ is
Cnot to be mentioned.”
11 For behold, the Loʀᴅ is going to
Acommand that the
Bgreat house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.
12 Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow
1them with oxen?
Yet you have turned
Ajustice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into
2wormwood,
13 You who rejoice in
1ALodebar,
2And say, “Have we not
Bby our
own strength taken
3Karnaim for ourselves?”
14 “For behold,
AI am going to raise up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,” declares the Loʀᴅ God of hosts,
“And they will afflict you from the
Bentrance of Hamath
To the
Bbrook of the Arabah.”