7Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.


In Context

4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.

5 You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.

6 You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

7 Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.

8 The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself-the Lord God Almighty declares: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it."

9 If ten men are left in one house, they too will die.

Amos 6:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:7Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore now they remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.