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Amos 6:3
3You refuse to think that trouble might come to you. But the cruel things that you do are causing trouble to come very soon.
Amos 6:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- New International Version (NIV)You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.
- English Standard Version (ESV)O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near;
Context of Amos 6:3
1Trouble is coming to you people who live in Zion and on Samaria's hill. You think that you are safe. You think that you are important people who live in the best nation on earth. Israelite people respect you as their leaders. 2Go and look at Calneh city. And go and look at Hamath city. Then go and look at Gath city, where the Philistines live. Are your cities stronger than their cities? Do you have more land than they do? You refuse to think that trouble might come to you. But the cruel things that you do are causing trouble to come very soon. 4You lie on beautiful, expensive beds. You do not work, but you rest all the time. You eat fat young sheep and cows. 5Like King David, you play music on your harps and you sing new songs.
Read all of Amos 6Amos 6:3 word by word
הַֽמְנַדִּ֖ים לְי֣וֹם רָ֑ע וַתַּגִּישׁ֖וּן שֶׁ֥בֶת חָמָֽס׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Amos 6:3
- Amos 5:18You want the special day of the Lord to come. But it will be very bad for you! You think that God will punish your enemies on that day. But that day will not bring light to you, it will bring darkness.
- Amos 9:10Those among my people who do bad things will die. They say, “God will not send trouble to us. Nothing bad will happen to us.” But their enemies will kill those bad people in war.’
- Ecclesiastes 8:11People who are guilty should receive their punishment quickly. If that does not happen, other people also want to do evil things.
- Isaiah 47:7You boasted, “I will rule other nations as queen for ever!” But you did not think about what you were doing. You did not think about what would happen in the end.
- Isaiah 56:12They say to each other, “Come! We must go and find more wine to drink! We can drink as much beer as we want! Tomorrow we can do it all again! It might be even better than today!” ’
- Ezekiel 12:22‘Son of man, you have this proverb in the land of Israel: “A long time passes and visions never truly happen.”
- Matthew 24:48But another servant might be bad. He might say to himself, “My master will not come yet.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3At that time, people will be saying, ‘We are safe and there is no trouble for us.’ But then, when they are not ready for it, great punishment will suddenly happen to them. It will be impossible for them to run away. Pain will suddenly come to them, like a woman who is giving birth to a baby.
- 2 Peter 3:4They will say: ‘Christ promised that he would return to this world. But he has not returned! Our ancestors have already died, but since God made the world in the beginning, nothing has changed.’
- Revelation 18:17But in one single hour God has destroyed all those valuable things.’ All the sailors and the people who travel on ships will also be sad. They include every ship's captain, and everyone who works on ships on the sea. They will stand a long way from the city.
- Amos 6:12Horses cannot run on rocks. People do not try to plough the sea. But you Israelites have changed what is fair and honest into something bad. You have made justice seem like poison.
- Amos 5:12I, the Lord, know all the wrong things that you have done. They are very many and they are very bad. You are cruel to good people. You take bribes to tell lies. Sometimes a person gives money to you to make you tell lies. As a result, poor people do not receive justice.
- Psalms 94:20You will not become a friend of cruel rulers. They make laws that only hurt people.
Commentaries on Amos 6:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Ye that put far away the evil day - Wo to you who will not consider the day of approaching vengeance; but continue in your iniquity, and harden your hearts. Ye bring your iniquities nearer, and still suppose your punishment to be at a greater distance.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Ye that put far away - Probably “with aversion.” They bade that day as it were, be gone. The Hebrew idiom expresses, how they would put it off, if they could; as far as in them lay, they “assigned a distance to it,, although they could not remove the day itself. The “evil day” is that same “day of the Lord,” which the scoffers or misbelievers professed to long for Amos 5:18. The thought that the Lord has a Day, in which to judge man, frets or frightens…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3day of calamity (literally seat of violence): By this phrase, Amos either meant that: Israel's actions may have sped up the Assyrian conquest's violence, or the people might have ignored the looming disaster, leading to everyday violence against the poor.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Ye persuade yourselves that "the evil day" foretold by the prophets is "far off," though they declare it near (Eze 12:22, 27). Ye in your imagination put it far off, and therefore bring near violent oppression, suffering it to sit enthroned, as it were, among you (Psa 94:20). The notion of judgment being far off has always been an incentive to the sinner's recklessness of living (Ec 8:12, 13; Mt 24:48). Yet that very recklessness brings near the evil…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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