Amos Chapter 6

The desolation of Israel for their pride and luxury.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state into the house of Israel.
2 Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath the great: and go down into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border.
3 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity;
4 You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd;
5 You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.
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.
9 And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.
10 And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?
11 And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him: Hold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord.
12 For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.
13 Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.
14 You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by our own strength?
15 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Væ qui opulenti estis in Sion,
et confiditis in monte Samariæ:
optimates capita populorum,
ingredientes pompatice domum Israël!
2 Transite in Chalane, et videte,
et ite inde in Emath magnam,
et descendite in Geth Palæstinorum,
et ad optima quæque regna horum:
si latior terminus eorum termino vestro est.
3 Qui separati estis in diem malum,
et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis;
4 qui dormitis in lectis eburneis,
et lascivitis in stratis vestris;
qui comeditis agnum de grege,
et vitulos de medio armenti;
5 qui canitis ad vocem psalterii,
sicut David putaverunt se habere vasa cantici,
6 bibentes vinum in phialis,
et optimo unguento delibuti,
et nihil patiebantur super contritione Joseph.
7 Quapropter nunc migrabunt in capite transmigrantium,
et auferetur factio lascivientium.
8 Juravit Dominus Deus in anima sua,
dicit Dominus Deus exercituum:
Detestor ego superbiam Jacob,
et domos ejus odi,
et tradam civitatem cum habitatoribus suis.
9 Quod si reliqui fuerint decem viri in domo una,
et ipsi morientur.
10 Et tollet eum propinquus suus, et comburet eum,
ut efferat ossa de domo;
et dicet ei, qui in penetralibus domus est:
Numquid adhuc est penes te?
11 Et respondebit: Finis est.
Et dicet ei: Tace,
et non recorderis nominis Domini.
12 Quia ecce Dominus mandabit,
et percutiet domum majorem ruinis,
et domum minorem scissionibus.
13 Numquid currere queunt in petris equi,
aut arari potest in bubalis?
quoniam convertistis in amaritudinem judicium,
et fructum justitiæ in absinthium.
14 Qui lætamini in nihilo; qui dicitis:
Numquid non in fortitudine nostra assumpsimus nobis cornua?
15 Ecce enim suscitabo super vos, domus Israël,
dicit Dominus Deus exercituum, gentem,
et conteret vos ab introitu Emath usque ad torrentem deserti.

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