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"Carefree in Zion"

^1 (C1)Woe to those who are carefree in Zion,
And to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria,
The ^(C2)dignitaries of the foremost of nations,
To whom the house of Israel comes.

² Go over to ^(C1)Calneh and look,
And go from there to ^(C2)Hamath the great,
Then go down to ^(C3)Gath of the Philistines.
Are ^(F1)they better than these kingdoms,
Or is their territory greater than yours?

³ Are you ^(C1)postponing the day of disaster,
And would you ^(C2)bring near the seat of violence?

⁴ Those who lie on beds of ivory,
And lounge around on their ^(C1)couches,
And ^(C2)eat lambs from the flock,
And calves from the midst of the fattened cattle,

⁵ Who improvise to the sound of the harp,
And like David have ^(F1)composed ^(C1)songs for themselves,

⁶ Who ^(C1)drink wine from sacred bowls
While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils—
Yet they have not ^(C2)grieved over the collapse of Joseph.

⁷ Therefore, they will now ^(C1)go into exile at the head of the exiles,
And the revelry of those who ^(C2)lounge around will come to an end.

⁸ The Lord ^(F1)GOD has ^(C1)sworn by Himself, the LORD God of armies has declared:
"I ^(C2)loathe the arrogance of Jacob,
And ^(F2)detest his ^(C3)citadels;
Therefore I will ^(C4)give up the city and ^(F3)all it contains."

¹² Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one ^(F1)plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned ^(C1)justice into poison,
And the fruit of righteousness into ^(F2)wormwood,

¹³ You who rejoice in ^(F1)(C1)Lodebar,
^(F2)And say, "Have we not ^(C2)by our own strength taken ^(F3)Karnaim for ourselves?"

¹⁴ "For behold, ^(C1)I am going to raise up a nation against you,
House of Israel," declares the LORD God of armies,
"And they will torment you from the ^(C2)entrance of Hamath
To the ^(C2)brook of the Arabah."