Amos 6:7
5 You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
9 And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
- KJV
- Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
- WEB
- Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive. The feasting and lounging will end.
- ASV
- Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
- DARBY
- Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
- BLB
- Therefore now they will be removed at the head of the captives, and will be turned aside the feasting and lounging.
- ÅB
- Derfor skal de nå vandre ut av landet fremst blant dem som føres bort, og med skrålet av dem som dovner seg, skal det være slutt.
- OTB
- Derfor skal de være de første som går i eksil,
og de som strekker seg ut, skal opphøre med sin lystighet. - B1930
- Derfor skal de nu vandre ut av landet fremst blandt dem som føres bort, og med skrålet av dem som dovner sig, skal det være slutt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 7:11
for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
Read in contextAmos 5:5
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
Read in context1 Kings 20:16–20
They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.
Read in contextDaniel 5:4–6
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Read in contextNahum 1:10
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
Read in contextAmos 7:17
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:41
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
Read in contextEsther 5:8
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
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