Holy Scripture

Amos 6:11

A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 7 seqq.) Therefore now they will migrate to the head of the transmigrants, and the faction of the revelers will be removed. The Lord God has sworn by his own soul, says the Lord God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver the city with its inhabitants: and if there are t…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Amos

Source: Septuagint

Original

11For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents.

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9And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die.

10But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet anyone else with thee? And he shall say, No one else. And the other shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord.

— Amos 6:11 —

12Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:

13ye who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength?

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