Amós 6

1 ¡Ay de los que viven tranquilos en Sióny de los que viven confiados en el monte de Samaria!¡Ay de los notables de la nación más importante,a quienes acude el pueblo de Israel!

2 Pasen a Calné y obsérvenla;vayan de allí a Jamat la grande,bajen luego a Gat de los filisteos.¿Acaso son ustedes superiores a estos reinos,o es más grande su territorio que el de ustedes?

3 Ustedes creen alejar el día de la desgracia,pero están acercando el imperio de la violencia.

4 Ustedes que se acuestan en camas incrustadas de marfily se arrellanan en divanes;que comen corderos selectosy terneros engordados;

5 que, a la manera de David,improvisan canciones al son de la cítarae inventan instrumentos musicales;

6 que beben vino en tazonesy se perfuman con las esencias más finassin afligirse por la ruina de José,

7 marcharán a la cabeza de los desterrados,y así terminará el banquete de los holgazanes.

8 El SEÑOR omnipotente jura por sí mismo;esto afirma el SEÑOR Dios Todopoderoso:«Yo detesto la arrogancia de Jacob;yo aborrezco sus fortalezas;por eso entregaré la ciudad al enemigo,con todo lo que hay en ella».

9 Sucederá que si en una casa quedan diez hombres con vida, todos morirán.

10 Y cuando vengan a la casa para levantar los cadáveres y quemarlos, algún pariente le preguntará a otro que ande en la casa: «¿Queda alguien más contigo?» Y aquel le responderá: «No». Entonces le dirá: «¡Cállate! No vayamos a mencionar el nombre del SEÑOR».

11 Mira, el SEÑOR da la ordende golpear la casa grande hasta hacerla añicosy de hacer trizas la casa pequeña.

12 ¿Acaso galopan los caballos por las rocaso se ara en estas con bueyes?Pero ustedes han convertido el derecho en veneno,y en amargura el fruto de la justicia.

13 Ustedes se regocijan por la conquista de Lo Debar^[a]y agregan: «¿No fue con nuestras propias fuerzascomo nos apoderamos de Carnayin?»^[b]

14 «Por tanto, pueblo de Israel,voy a levantar contra ti a una naciónque te oprimirá desde Lebó Jamat^[c]hasta el torrente del Arabá»,afirma el SEÑOR, el Dios Todopoderoso.

Amós 6 Commentary

Chapter 6

The danger of luxury and false security. (1-7) Punishments of sins. (8-14)

Verses 1-7 Those are looked upon as doing well for themselves, who do well for their bodies; but we are here told what their ease is, and what their woe is. Here is a description of the pride, security, and sensuality, for which God would reckon. Careless sinners are every where in danger; but those at ease in Zion, who are stupid, vainly confident, and abusing their privileges, are in the greatest danger. Yet many fancy themselves the people of God, who are living in sin, and in conformity to the world. But the examples of others' ruin forbid us to be secure. Those who are set upon their pleasures are commonly careless of the troubles of others, but this is great offence to God. Those who placed their happiness in the pleasures of sense, and set their hearts upon them, shall be deprived of those pleasures. Those who try to put the evil day far from them, find it nearest to them.

Verses 8-14 How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal ruin the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and none can alter it! Those hearts are wretchedly hardened that will not be brought to mention God's name, and to worship him, when the hand of God is gone out against them, when sickness and death are in their families. Those that will not be tilled as fields, shall be abandoned as rocks. When our services of God are soured with sin, his providences will justly be made bitter to us. Men should take warning not to harden their hearts, for those who walk in pride, God will destroy.

Footnotes

• [a]. En hebreo, "Lo Debar " significa "nada" .
• [b]. En hebreo, "Carnayin " significa "dos cuernos" ; el cuerno es símbolo del poder.
• [c]. "Lebó Jamat" . Alt. "la entrada de Jamat" .

Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 6

This chapter seems to be directed both to the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the ten tribes of Israel, under the names of Zion and Samaria, and to the principal men in both; who are reproved and threatened for their carnal security and self-confidence, being in no fear of the evil day, though they had no reason for it no more than other people, Am 6:1-3; are charged with wantonness, luxury, intemperance, and want of sympathy with those in distress, Am 6:4-6; therefore are threatened to be carried captive first, and their city to be delivered up; which, for the certainty of it, is not only said, but swore to, Am 6:7,8; and a great mortality in every house, and the destruction of all houses, both great and small, Am 6:9-11; and since a reformation of them seemed impracticable, and not to be expected, but they gloried in their wealth, and boasted of their strength, therefore they should be afflicted by a foreign nation raised against them, which affliction should be general, from one end of the country to the other, Am 6:12-14.