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improvising tunes on the lyre,
    composing music for themselves on musical instruments like David,
drinking large bowls of wine—
    they slather[a] themselves with the most expensive perfumed oils,
    but they do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
That is why they will go into exile as the first of the exiles.
    Those who sprawl out at their feasts for the dead will depart.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:6 Literally anoint, but the reference is not to anointing to office.