| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1What sorrow awaits you who lounge in luxury in Jerusalem, and you who feel secure in Samaria! You are famous and popular in Israel, and people go to you for help. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But go over to Calneh and see what happened there. Then go to the great city of Hamath and down to the Philistine city of Gath. You are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds and lounge on your couches, eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock and of choice calves fattened in the stall. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp and fancy yourselves to be great musicians like David. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You drink wine by the bowlful and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions. You care nothing about the ruin of your nation. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly, all your parties will end. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, says: “I despise the arrogance of Israel, and I hate their fortresses. I will give this city and everything in it to their enemies.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9(If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No, by . . . ,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Don’t even mention the name of the LORD.”) |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11When the LORD gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Can horses gallop over boulders? Can oxen be used to plow them? But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar. You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim by our own strength?” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14“O people of Israel, I am about to bring an enemy nation against you,” says the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies. “They will oppress you throughout your land— from Lebo-hamath in the north to the Arabah Valley in the south.” |
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