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Amos 3
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth.
“Only you have I known (note: Or chosen) from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
Will a lion roar in the thicket,
Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?
Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,
Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?
Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing,
Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
The lion has roared.
The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?
Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,
Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD,
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
Therefore the Lord GOD says:
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy (note: Or An adversary) will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
The LORD says:
This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch (note: Or so will the Israelites be snatched away, those who sit in Samaria on the edge of their beds and in Damascus on their couches).
“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies.
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.
“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,
On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.
I will strike the winter house with the summer house;
I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.