Amos 6:4-7

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⁴But now you lie on ivory beds
    and stretch out on your couches.
You eat tender young lambs from the flock
    and young calves from the stable.
⁵You play your harps,
    and like David, you practice on^[a] your musical instruments.
⁶You drink wine in fancy cups.^[b]
    You use the best perfumes.
And it doesn’t even bother you
    that Joseph’s family is being destroyed.

⁷You people are stretched out on your couches now, but your good times will end. You will be taken away as prisoners to a foreign country, and you will be some of the first people taken.

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Footnotes

Amos 6:5 practice on Or “invent.” The Hebrew word means to “think,” “become skilled,” or “design.”
Amos 6:6 fancy cups Very large bowls used in worship rituals.