Amos 6:8
For the Lord has sworn by himself, saying, Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off his city with all who inhabit it.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
9And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:11And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you;
Deuteronomy 32:19And the Lord saw, and was jealous; 1 And was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters, 1
Psalms 50:12Create in me a clean heart, O God; 1 And renew a right spirit in my inward parts. 1
Psalms 106:40Contempt is poured upon their princes, 1 And he causes them to wander in a desert and trackless land. 1
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.
Jeremiah 22:14Thou hast built for thyself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted 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 →