1 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:
2 “I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth.
3 Do two walk together,
4 Will a lion roar in the thicket,
5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,
6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing,
8 The lion has roared.
9 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,
10 “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD,
11 Therefore the Lord GOD says:
12 The LORD says:
13 “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies.
14 “For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,
15 I will strike the winter house with the summer house;