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Amos 3

¹Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the LORD has spoken against you — against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:

²“You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

³Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?

⁴Does a lion roar in the thicket when it has no prey? Does it growl in its den when it has caught nothing?

⁵Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground when no bait is there? Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything?

⁶When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

⁷Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

⁸The lion has roared — who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken — who can but prophesy?

⁹Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod and to the fortresses of Egypt: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest within her and the oppression among her people.”

¹⁰“They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

¹¹Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “An enemy will overrun your land, pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.”

¹²This is what the LORD says: “As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece of fabric [9] from a couch. [10]”

¹³“Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,” declares the Lord, the LORD God Almighty.

¹⁴“On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

¹⁵I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished,” declares the LORD.