Amos 6:8
The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:11I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not cast you off.
Deuteronomy 32:19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
Psalms 50:12If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 106:40And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.
Jeremiah 22:14Who saith: I will build me a wide house and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.
Matthew Henry on Amos 6:2-8
The Danger of False Security. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? 3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch… Read the whole commentary →