Amos 6:1-3

New International Reader's Version

6 How terrible it will be for you men
    who are so contented on Mount Zion!
How terrible for you who feel secure
    on the hill of Samaria!
You are famous men from the greatest nation.
    The people of Israel come to you
    for help and advice.
² Go and look at the city of Kalneh.
    Go from there to the great city of Hamath.
    Then go down to Gath in Philistia.
Are those places better off than your two kingdoms?
    Is their land larger than yours?
³ You are trying to avoid the time
    when trouble will come.
But you are only bringing closer
    the Assyrian rule of terror.