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You play your harps,
    and like David, you practice on[a] your musical instruments.
You 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.

You 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

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

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