Amos · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Amos 6 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 ¡Ay de los que viven tranquilos en Sion, de los que confían en la montaña de Samaria y los notables y principales entre las naciones, a quienes la Casa de Israel acude!
1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
2 Pasen a Calne y observen. Desde allí vayan a la gran Hamat, luego bajen a Gat de los filisteos. ¿Son ellos mejores que estos reinos? ¿O es su territorio mayor que el de ustedes?
2 Go to Calneh, and see. From there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Is their border greater than your border?
3 ¿Alejan el día de la calamidad y acercan la silla de la violencia?
3 Alas for you who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
4 Duermen en camas de marfil, reposan sobre sus camas y comen los corderos del rebaño y los becerros del establo.
4 who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall,
5 Improvisan el sonido del arpa y componen salmos para ellos mismos como David.
5 who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
6 Beben vino en grandes copas, se ungen con los mejores ungüentos y no se afligen por la ruina de José.
6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Por tanto, ahora serán llevados a la cabeza de los cautivos, y cesará el banquete de los que se reclinan.
7 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive. The feasting and lounging will end.
8 ʼAdonay Yavé juró por sí mismo. Yavé ʼElohim de las huestes dijo: Repugno el orgullo de Jacob y aborrezco sus palacios. Entregaré la ciudad al enemigo y todo cuanto hay en ella.
8 “The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
9 Acontecerá que si quedan diez hombres en una casa, morirán.
9 It will happen that if ten men remain in one house, they will die.
10 Un pariente quemará a cada uno para sacar los huesos de la casa. Dirá al que está en algún rincón de ella: ¿Queda alguno contigo? Y responderá: Ninguno. Y dirá: ¡Silencio! Porque no podemos mencionar el Nombre de Yavé.
10 “When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
11 Porque ciertamente Yavé ordena que la mansión sea destrozada y la casa reducida a fragmentos.
11 “For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
12 ¿Galopan los caballos sobre las peñas? ¿Se ara con bueyes en el mar? Pero ustedes convierten el juicio en veneno y el fruto de la justicia en ajenjo.
12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
13 Ustedes, los que se alegran con nada, y dicen: ¿No adquirimos poder con nuestra fuerza?
13 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’
14 Pues mira, oh Casa de Israel. Yo levanto contra ustedes una nación que los oprimirá desde la entrada de Hamat hasta el torrente del Arabá, dice Yavé, ʼElohim de las huestes.
14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies; “and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”
Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 32:9–11; James 5:5; Luke 12:17–20; Amos 4:1; Zephaniah 1:12
- 2 Nahum 3:8; Genesis 10:10; 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Chronicles 26:6; Isaiah 10:9–11
- 3 Amos 9:10; Isaiah 56:12; Ezekiel 12:27; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Amos 3:10
- 4 Amos 3:12; James 5:5; 1 Samuel 25:36–38; Ezekiel 34:2–3; Isaiah 5:11–12
- 5 Isaiah 5:12; Amos 5:23; Amos 8:3; Genesis 31:27; Ecclesiastes 2:8
- 6 Genesis 49:22; 1 Corinthians 12:26; 1 Timothy 5:23; 2 Kings 17:3–6; Jeremiah 30:7
- 7 Amos 7:11; Amos 5:5; 1 Kings 20:16–20; Daniel 5:4–6; Nahum 1:10
- 8 Jeremiah 51:14; Amos 4:2; Jeremiah 22:5; Psalm 47:4; Amos 8:7
- 9 Amos 5:3; Job 1:2; Esther 5:11; Psalm 109:13; 1 Samuel 2:33
- 10 Amos 8:3; 1 Samuel 31:12; Ezekiel 20:39; Amos 5:13; Numbers 17:12
- 11 Amos 3:15; Isaiah 55:11; 2 Kings 25:9; Amos 6:8; Luke 19:44
- 12 Amos 5:7; Hosea 10:4; Amos 5:11–12; Isaiah 59:13–14; 1 Kings 21:7–13
- 13 Luke 12:19–20; Isaiah 28:14–15; James 4:16; 2 Kings 14:25; Job 31:29
- 14 2 Kings 14:25; 1 Kings 8:65; Jeremiah 5:15–17; Numbers 34:7–8; 2 Kings 17:6
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
They thought that they had instruments of music like David; drinking wine in bowls, and anointing themselves with the costliest ointment: and they were not grieved for the affliction of Joseph." Suppose those men who, assuming to be themselves learned and eloquent, despise our prophets as untaught and unskillful of speech, had been obliged to deliver a message like this, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Hear, at all events, how even apart from these things the prophet finds fault with them, thus speaking, "Woe to them that drink wine racked off, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments." Seest thou how He censures luxury too?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)