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Amos 6:13

Pride

11 For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

12 “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’

14 For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’
KJV
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
WEB
you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’
ASV
ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
DARBY
ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us power by our own strength?
BLB
[being] glad in Lo-debar, saying, ‘Is [it] not by our own strength [that] we have taken for ourselves Karnaim?’
ÅB
Dere som gleder dere over det som intet er, og som sier: Er det ikke ved vår egen styrke vi har vunnet oss velde?
OTB
dere som gleder dere i Lo Debar
og sier, "Er det ikke vi som tok Karnaim med vår egen styrke?"
B1930
I som gleder eder over det som intet er, og som sier: Er det ikke ved vår egen styrke vi har vunnet oss velde?

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