Amos 6:6
Good News Translation
You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest perfumes, but you do not mourn over the ruin of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

Contemporary English Version
You drink all the wine you want and wear expensive perfume, but you don't care about the ruin of your nation.

New American Bible
Who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph;

Douay-Rheims Bible
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.

drink.

wine in bowls.

Hosea 3:1 And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

1 Timothy 5:23 Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.

chief.

Matthew 26:7-9 There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table. . . .

John 12:3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

but.

Genesis 37:25-28 And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. . . .

Genesis 42:21,22 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us. . . .

Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;

Esther 3:15 The couriers that were sent made haste to fulfil the king's commandment. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susan, the king and Aman feasting together, and all the Jews that were in the city weeping.

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26 And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

affliction.

2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar, king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephthali: and carried them captives into Assyria.

2 Kings 17:3-6 Against him came up Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians; and Osee became his servant, and paid him tribute. . . .

Jeremiah 30:7 Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and it is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it.

Context
Woe to those at Ease in Zion
5You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David; 6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.7Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:12
The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Ezekiel 9:4
And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.

Amos 2:8
And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Amos 6:5
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