Amos 6:8
Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass — that they have died.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:11'And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you;
Deuteronomy 32:19And Jehovah seeth and despiseth — For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
Psalms 50:12If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
Psalms 106:40And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.
Isaiah 28:1Woe [to] the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That [is] on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.
Jeremiah 22:14Who is saying, 'I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,' And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled 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 →