Thomson(i)
1 Alas for them who despise Sion and have put their trust in the mount of Samaria. They have gathered as a vintage the governments of nations and gone in
2 . house of Israel, Go ye all over [to Chalane] and see, and thence pass on to Ematraba and thence go down to Gath of the Philistines, to the strongest of all those kingdoms of theirs. Are their borders larger than yours,
3 who are coming to an evil day, who are drawing near and on the point of touching false sabbaths?
4 Some of you are sleeping on beds of ivory and lolling at ease on their couches, and eating kids from the flocks, and from the herds calves fed with milk:
5 some are dwelling: on the sound of musical instruments; as if they thought it fixed and not fleeting.
6 Some are drinking filtered wine and anointing themselves with most precious ointment and have no feeling for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Now for this cause, from being a government of mighties they shall be captives, and the neighing of horses shall be taken away from Ephraim.
8 For the Lord hath sworn by himself, As I abhor all this haughtiness of Jacob and have hated all his regions, therefore I will destroy cities with their inhabitants.
9 And it shall come to pass that if ten head men be left in one family, they shall die
10 and the residue shall be left and their domestics shall succeed them. And when they are pressed to bring their bones out of the house, one will say to them who are over the family, Are there any more yet with thee? And when one will say, There is no more: then will one say, Forbear to mention the name of the Lord on this account;
11 for behold the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches and the small house with fractures.
12 Can horses pursue among rocks? Will they refrain from whinnying at females? Because you have turned judgment into fury, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
13 some rejoicing in a thing of naught, and others saying, "Have we not by our own strength taken horns?"
14 Therefore, behold I will raise up against you, house of Israel, a nation, saith the Lord of hosts, who shall afflict you that you may not enter the bay of Aimath, nor approach the brook at the settings of the sun.