Catholic Public Domain Version
"You rejoice in emptiness. You say, “Have we not, by our own strength, taken horns for ourselves?” "
— Amos 6:14, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness. ”
“For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah. ”
“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."”
““Look! I am about to bring a nation against you, family of Israel.” The LORD, the God who commands armies, is speaking.“They will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the stream of the rift valley.””
“You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by our own strength?”
“For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.”
“But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness. ”
And he will answer, “It is finished.” And he will say to him, “Be silent and do not call to mind the name of the Lord.”
For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.
Can horses gallop across rocks, or is anyone able to plough with gazelles? For you have turned judgment into bitterness and the fruit of justice into wormwood.
You rejoice in emptiness. You say, “Have we not, by our own strength, taken horns for ourselves?”
For behold, house of Israel, I will raise up a people over you, says the Lord God of hosts, and they will crush you from the entrance of Hamath all the way to the burning of the desert.